With a newly developed computer model, researchers were able to successfully predict which 5 percent of U.S. Army soldiers committed more than one-third of all major Army workplace violent crimes over a six-year period.
The researchers said that the model could help identify service members who need intensive interventions. Such interventions, they suggested, might help prevent this type of violence.
"The fact that the model identifies such a high proportion of violent crimes is especially exciting because the variables used in the model are routinely collected administrative data the Army can use to identify high-risk soldiers without carrying out expensive one-on-one clinical assessments," the study's lead author, Anthony Rosellini, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said in a school news release.
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