%0 Journal Article
%T Diagnostic Reliability and Sex Offender Civil Commitment Evaluations: A Reply to Wollert (2007)
%A Dennis M. Doren
%A Jill S. Levenson
%J Sexual Offender Treatment
%D 2009
%I Pabst Science Publishers
%X A recent article by Richard Wollert (2007) purports to demonstrate that the diagnostic inter-rater reliability of sex offender civil commitment evaluations is not high enough to be worthy for courtroom testimony. That author relies on a series of analyses to support that argument. Unfortunately, those analyses were flawed in serious ways, raising doubt about the overall conclusions drawn. This article delineates Wollert¡¯s inaccurate assumptions, addresses methodological flaws, and offers an alternative interpretation regarding the accuracy of sexual offender civil commitment assessments.
%K diagnostic accuracy
%K sexual offenders
%K civil committment
%K reliability
%U http://www.sexual-offender-treatment.org/1-2009_01.html