The following requirements must be met to ensure full credit for this module's discussion:
- Post an original submission to the discussion.
- Ensure that postings are detailed responses relating to course and/or chapter content.
- Read and respond to at least 1 other student's post with a substantive response.
- State your position on whether you agree or disagree with your colleagues' statements.
- Correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation are expected.
- Adhere to the most recent APA standards and use APA guidelines to cite references.
- Examples of APA in-text citations for the text book:
Blah blah blah (Lab, 2020).
When quoting: “Blah blah blah” (Lab, 2020, p. #).
According to Lab (2020), blah blah blah.
Lab (2020) stated that “blah blah blah” (p. #)
Required Text and Materials
Lab, S. (2020). Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations (10th Ed). Anderson Publishing.
ISBN: 9781138390256
Answer the following questions:
- Discuss the difference between life-course persistent and adolescence-limited offending. Do they have the same risk factors? If not, what are some of the risk factors for each?
- What is clinical prediction? Discuss the factors that can be used in making such predictions. What are some reasons for why clinical predictions tend to have poor results.
First, the writer needs to first write the main post by answering these two questions. No minimum words count are required.
Second, the writer needs to read Brittney Louramore 's post and reply to him directly. How the writer will reply to Brittney Louramore's post? The writer needs to reply directly to Brittney Louramore by greeting her: Hello or Hi Brittney and start replying. The writer needs to tell Brittney where he/she agrees or disagrees with her and why he/she is agrees or disagrees. The writer needs to ask Brittney questions if any and needs to provide feedback and or opinions. No minimum words count are required also.
Below is Brittney Louramore's post:
- Life-course persistent works by identifying the risk of a long term continuing deviant behavior, while adolescence-limited offending is similar but, focuses mainly on adolescence offending. Risk factors are commonly used by researchers in order to predict later deviance. Adolescence-limited offending has four risk factors, life-course persistent has five, and they share a couple of the same factors. They're all very similar like adolescence-limited offending has poor parent-child relations and poor academic performance, while life-course persistent has poor family management and poor academic abilities. The only one that's actually different is life-course persistent's risk factor, neuropsychological problems.
- "Clinical predictions are based on a rater's evaluation of an individual, usually after interviews and direct examination of the subject and his or her records"(Lab,2020.p.173). It is often used to determine the factors and variables important in coming to a decision. "The rater can use various psychological tests, demographic information about the individual, family and individual background information, or interviews of the subject in making a determination"(Lab,2020.p.174). As far as factors go, there aren't really any rules as to what to use, or when to use it, typically it's all up to the rater. Clinical predictions resulted with poor results, for a number of reasons. One reason is the possibility that the determination of danger and future offending may be too strict. Another one questions the adequacy of the information, among evaluators making their judgment. This is describing that clinical interviews tend to have a short duration, which means there isn't much time for observation. From all of this information, it is clear that predictions formed on limited observations may rely on incorrect, unorganized, or incomplete information.
Lab, S. (2020). Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations (10th edition Ed.). Anderson Publishing
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