title: [Benefits and limitations of risk assessment for criminal recidivism].
abstract: The legislatives evolutions imply an important recourse to the psychiatric expertise in order to evaluate the potential dangerousness of a subject. However, in spite of the development of techniques and tools for this evaluation, the dangerousness assessment of a subject is in practice extremely complex and discussed in the scientific literature. The evolution of the concept of dangerousness to the risk assessment involved a technicisation of this evaluation which should not make forget the limits of these tools and the need for restoring the subject, the meaning and the clinic in this evaluation.
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche en psychiatrie et psychologie Iégales, Département de psychiatrie, Site de Cery, 1008 Prilly-Lausanne. valerie.moulin@chuv.ch
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Moulin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gasser
mesh_terms: D057237:Criminals; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*