Table 1. Characteristics of nine commonly used violence risk assessment tools.
| Instrument | Approach | Outcome |
| LSI-R | Actuarial | General Offending |
| PCL-R | Actuarial | N/Aa |
| SORAG | Actuarial | Violent Offending |
| Static-99 | Actuarial | Violent + Sexual Offending |
| VRAG | Actuarial | Violent Offending |
| HCR-20 | SCJ | Violent Offending |
| SARA | SCJ | Violent Offending |
| SAVRY | SCJ | Violent Offending |
| SVR-20 | SCJ | Violent + Sexual Offending |
Note. SCJ = structured clinical judgment; N/A = not applicable.
a
The PCL-R was designed as a personality measure rather than a risk assessment tool, but is frequently used as means to assess risk of violent, sexual and general offending.