Staff reviewed
QUALITY OF POST-SENTENCE PSYCHIATRIC EXPERT REPORTS ON INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED OF ISLAMIST TERRORIST OFFENSES.
— STAFF
It documents, on an unusually well-sourced sample, that pre-release dangerousness opinions in French terrorism cases rest largely on unstructured clinical judgment rather than structured or actuarial risk assessment — a gap a cross-examiner or a court can now point to. The conformity framework, including the radicalization risk-factor list, is a template other jurisdictions could adopt for auditing report quality in this niche. It does not change any obligation or establish that a particular instrument is valid or invalid, so it informs rather than reshapes practice.