Actuarial Risk Assessment: Predicting Behavior by the Numbers

a mathematically measured prediction of the potential of a person who will present a danger to other people or have interaction in select actions, like destructive behavior, inside a chosen time frame. As opposed to scientific risk assessment, it depends upon information from specific, measurable factors, like age or sex, that have been authenticated as predictors and utilizes numerical analyses and formulations to assess the likelihood of risky or destructive behavior,