LIVE: Structured Professional Judgment and Racial Disparities in Risk Assessment
September 24, 2024
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific
2 Hours | 2 CEs
$200 Registration | $150 Early Registration (through September 17th) | Live Virtual Training via Zoom
Neil Hogan, PhD presents a live virtual professional training program on Structured Professional Judgment and Racial Disparities in Risk Assessment.
This training will provide participants with an overview of the first empirical research studies evaluating racial disparities in structured professional judgment (SPJ) risk ratings. The training will also identify specific conceptual and theoretical vulnerabilities to racial biases within the SPJ approach to risk assessment, as well as the defenses of the system.
By the end of the training, participants will have an increased understanding of what is known and unknown regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the SPJ model as applied to diverse ethnocultural groups. In turn, participants will be able to make more informed decisions about their own professional work and to make informed defenses of SPJ risk ratings in adversarial settings (e.g., if testifying in courts of law).
There are no prerequisite training requirements, but participants may benefit from having prior familiarity with foundational risk assessment and foundational SPJ training. This training is designed to be broadly applicable to persons who conduct, use, or are otherwise influenced by formal risk or threat assessments across forensic mental health, correctional, policing, and related settings.
This training will be interactive and engage participants through survey and quiz questions throughout the presentation.
Training outline:
- Introduction
- Basic risk assessment and structured professional judgement (SPJ) concepts
- Controversy and empirical findings regarding racial disparities in risk assessment
- Prior
- New empirical findings related to racial disparities in structured professional judgment risk ratings as applied to Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons, using the HCR-20V3 and SARA-V3
- Case studies and theoretical discussion to explain how racial disparities can arise and what their implications are for assessors and others impacted by formal risk assessments