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title: Flight Risk or Misconception? Revisiting and Understanding Absconding Risk
description: We examine the predictive validity of a new risk assessment scale for absconding, the Waypoint Elopement Risk Scale-Historical (WERS-H), and assess its incremental utility against a general violence risk assessment instrument (HCR-20V3).
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# [Flight Risk or Misconception? Revisiting and Understanding Absconding Risk](https://paloaltou.edu/resources/translating-research-into-practice-blog/flight-risk-or-misconception)

 Written by [Amber Lin](https://paloaltou.edu/resources/translating-research-into-practice-blog/author/amber-lin) | Jul 24, 2023 9:02:36 PM

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