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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Structured professional judgment of violence risk in forensic clinical practice: A prospective study into the predictive validity of the Dutch HCR-20

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Pages 321-336 | Received 29 Mar 2005, Published online: 31 Jan 2007

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