The efficacy of violence prediction: a meta-analytic comparison of nine risk assessment tools.
M Yang, Wong, J Coid - Psychological bulletin, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
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The moderate level of predictive accuracy of these tools suggests that they should not be used solely for some criminal justice decision making that requires a very high level of accuracy such as preventive detention
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Most items in structured risk assessment instruments do not predict violence
JW Coid, M Yang, S Ullrich, T Zhang… - The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology 2011 - Taylor & Francis
You can find more through Google Scholar. But you can see that they think using the standard instruments would not be useful for a legal decision such as denying some of their rights. The only thing that has some use was a history of past violence.