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Dual Role Relationship and Risk Reduction

Dual Role Relationship Quality and Risk Reduction

Efficiently Assessing Firm, Fair & Caring Relationships: Short Form of the Dual Role Relationship Inventory

Authors: 
Perman Gochyyev, Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Psychological Assessment
Dual Role Relationship Quality and Risk Reduction

Firm, Fair, and Caring Officer-Offender Relationships Protect Against Supervision Failure

Authors: 
Patrick J. Kennealy, Jennifer L. Skeem, Sarah M. Manchak, Jennifer Eno Louden
Journal: 
Law & Human Behavior
Dual Role Relationship Quality and Risk Reduction

Assessing Relationship Quality in Mandated Community Treatment: Blending Care With Control

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Jennifer Eno Louden, Jacqueline Camp, Devon L. L. Polaschek
Journal: 
Psychological Assessment
Dual Role Relationship Quality and Risk Reduction

Care, Control, or Both? Characterizing Major Dimensions of the Mandated Treatment Relationship

Authors: 
Sarah M. Manchak, Jennifer L. Skeem, Karen S. Rook
Journal: 
Law & Human Behavior

High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

Comparing the Stability of Psychopathy Scores in Adolescents Versus Adults: How Often Is “Fledgling Psychopathy” Misdiagnosed?

Authors: 
Elizabeth Cauffman, Jennifer L. Skeem, Julia Dmitrieva, Caitlin Cavanagh
Journal: 
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

How Well Do Juvenile Risk Assessments Measure Factors to Target in Treatment? Examining Construct Validity

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Patrick J. Kennealy, Joseph R. Tatar II, Isaias Hernandez, Felicia Keith
Journal: 
Psychological Assessment
High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

Does Staff See What Experts See? Accuracy of Front Line Staff in Scoring Juveniles’ Risk Factors

Authors: 
Patrick J. Kennealy, Jennifer L. Skeem, Isaias Hernandez
Journal: 
Psychological Assessment
High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

Primary and secondary variants of juvenile psychopathy differ in emotional processing

Authors: 
Eva R. Kimonis, Paul J. Frick, Elizabeth Cauffman, Asha Goldweber, Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Development and Psychopathology
High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

Treatment Response of Adolescent Offenders with Psychopathy Features: A 2-Year Follow-Up

Authors: 
Michael Caldwell, Jennifer L. Skeem, Randy Salekin, Gregory Van Rybroek
Journal: 
Criminal Justice & Behavior
High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

Justice Policy Reform for High-Risk Juveniles: Using Science to Achieve Large-Scale Crime Reduction

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Elizabeth Scott, Edward P. Mulvey
Journal: 
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
High Risk Juveniles and Crime Prevention

Are Secondary Variants of Juvenile Psychopathy More Reactively Violent and Less Psychosocially Mature Than Primary Variants?

Authors: 
Eva R. Kimonis, Jennifer L. Skeem, Elizabeth Cauffman, Julia Dmitrieva
Journal: 
Law & Human Behavior

Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Lost in Translation: 'Risks' 'Needs,' and 'Evidence' in Implementing the First Step Act

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, John Monahan
Journal: 
Behavioral Sciences and the Law
In Press / Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

High risk, not hopeless: Correctional intervention for people at risk for violence

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Devon L. L. Polaschek
Journal: 
Marquette Law Review
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

What Role Does Serious Mental Illness Play in Mass Shootings and How Should We Address It?

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Criminology and Public Policy
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Do specialty programs for justice-involved people with mental illness exacerbate stigma?

Authors: 
Jennifer Eno Louden, Perman Gochyyev, Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Psychological Assessment
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Exposure to Community Violence and Self-harm in California

Authors: 
Ellicott C. Matthay, Kriszta Farkas, Jennifer L. Skeem, Jennifer Ahern
Journal: 
Epidemiology
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Comparing Costs of Traditional vs. Specialty Probation for People with Serious Mental Illness

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Lina Montoya, Sarah M. Manchak
Journal: 
Psychiatric Services
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Comparing Public Safety Outcomes for Traditional Probation vs Specialty Mental Health Probation

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Sarah M. Manchak, Lina Montoya
Journal: 
JAMA Psychiatry
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Psychosis Uncommonly and Inconsistently Precedes Violence Among High-Risk Individuals

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Patrick J. Kennealy, John Monahan, Jillian K. Peterson, Paul S. Appelbaum
Journal: 
Clinical Psychological Science
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Correctional Policy for Offenders with Mental Illness: Creating a New Paradigm for Recidivism Reduction

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Sarah M. Manchak, Jillian K. Peterson
Journal: 
Law & Human Behavior
Mental Illness, Violence and Correctional Policy

Psychiatric Symptoms and Community Violence Among High-Risk Patients: A Test of the Relationship at the Weekly Level

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Candice L. Odgers, William Gardner, Carol Schubert, Edward P. Mulvey, Charles W. Lidz
Journal: 
Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology

Psychopathy and Its Variants

Psychopathy and Its Variants

Treatment of adults and youths with psychopathy

Authors: 
Devon L. L. Polaschek, Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Guilford Press
Psychopathy and Its Variants

What features of psychopathy might be central? A network analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R) in three large samples

Authors: 
Bruno Verschuere, Anna Sophia van Ghesel Grothe, Lourens Waldorp, Ashley L. Watts, Scott O. Lilienfeld, John F. Edens, Jennifer L. Skeem, Arjen Noordhof
Journal: 
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Psychopathy and Its Variants

Is criminal behavior a central component of psychopathy? Conceptual directions for resolving the debate.

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, David J. Cooke
Journal: 
Psychological Assessment
Psychopathy and Its Variants

Psychopathic Personality: Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Evidence and Public Policy

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Devon L. L. Polaschek, Christopher J. Patrick, Scott O. Lilienfeld
Journal: 
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
Psychopathy and Its Variants

Psychopathic Predators? Getting Specific About the Relation Between Psychopathy and Violence

Authors: 
Jacqueline Camp, Jennifer L. Skeem, Kimberly Barchard, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Norman G. Poythress
Journal: 
Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology
Psychopathy and Its Variants

Do Core Interpersonal and Affective Traits of PCL-R Psychopathy Interact With Antisocial Behavior and Disinhibition to Predict Violence?

Authors: 
Patrick J. Kennealy, Jennifer L. Skeem, Glenn D. Walters, Jacqueline Camp
Journal: 
Psychological Assessment
Psychopathy and Its Variants

Psychopathic personality or personalities? Exploring potential variants of psychopathy and their implications for risk assessment

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Norman G. Poythress, John F. Edens, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ellison M. Cale
Journal: 
Aggression and Violent Behavior

Risk Assessment and Sanctioning

Risk Assessment and Sanctioning / Other

The limits of human predictions of recidivism

Authors: 
Zhiyuan, Jongbin Jung, Sharad Goel, Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Science Advances
In Press / Risk Assessment and Sanctioning

Impact of Risk Assessment on Judges’ Fairness in Sentencing Relatively Poor Defendants

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Nicholas Scurich, John Monahan
Journal: 
Law & Human Behavior
Risk Assessment and Sanctioning

The Accuracy, Equity, and Jurisprudence of Criminal Risk Assessment

Authors: 
Sharad Goel, Ravi Shroff, Jennifer Skeem, Christopher Slobogin
Journal: 
Under Review
Risk Assessment and Sanctioning

Risk, Race, & Recidivism: Predictive Bias and Disparate Impact

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Christopher T. Lowenkamp
Journal: 
Criminology
Risk Assessment and Sanctioning

Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing

Authors: 
John Monahan, Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Risk Assessment and Sanctioning

The Utility of Patients' Self-Perceptions of Violence Risk: Consider Asking the Person Who May Know Best

Authors: 
Jennifer L. Skeem, Sarah M. Manchak, Charles W. Lidz, Edward P. Mulvey
Journal: 
Psychiatric Services
Risk Assessment and Sanctioning

Risk Redux: The Resurgence of Risk Assessment in Criminal Sanctioning

Authors: 
John Monahan, Jennifer L. Skeem
Journal: 
Federal Sentencing Reporter

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