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Ilvy Goossens
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Risk Communication Practices in Risk Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review Across Violent, Sexual, or General Offending
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law · 2026 · first author
Are risk assessment tools more accurate than unstructured judgments in predicting violent, any, and sexual offending? A meta‐analysis of direct comparison studies
Behavioral Sciences and the Law · 2025
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness
Journal of Criminal Justice · 2025 · senior author
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15 publications.
Risk Communication Practices in Risk Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review Across Violent, Sexual, or General Offending
Goossens I, Helmus LM, Viljoen J
Are risk assessment tools more accurate than unstructured judgments in predicting violent, any, and sexual offending? A meta‐analysis of direct comparison studies
Viljoen JL, Goossens I, Monjazeb S, Cochrane DM, Vargen LM, Jonnson MR, Blanchard AJE, Li SMY, Jackson JR
Microcosms of violence among street gang members: Social contagion, propensity to violence, and gang embeddedness
Charette Y, Goossens I
A Comprehensive Examination of the Role of the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide, Domestic Violence Risk Appraisal Guide, Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment, and Danger Assessment in Canadian Courts and Tribunals
Goossens I, Fox W, Peikarnegar M
Comparing Static-99R and STABLE-2007 profiles of people convicted of sexual offences in Hong Kong to Western normative data
Lam SSF, Goossens I, Helmus LM
Chapter 9 Improving police procedures for dealing with mental illness
Roesch R, Goossens I
Do Structured Risk Assessments Predict Violent, Any, and Sexual Offending Better Than Unstructured Judgment? An Umbrella Review
Viljoen JL, Vargen LM, Cochrane DM, Jonnson MR, Goossens I, Monjazeb S
Is Knowledge Contagious? Diffusion of Violence-Risk-Reporting Practices Across Clinicians’ Professional Networks
Charette Y, Goossens I, Seto MC, Nicholls TL, Crocker AG
#AbolishNCR: A Qualitative Analysis of Social Media Narratives around the Insanity Defense
Goossens I, Jordan M, Nicholls T
Criminalization of HIV: Ethical and Legal Issues for the Practice of Psychology in Canada
Goossens I, Vargen LM, Wedman M, Connolly DA
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