Violence Risk Assessment in New York Order-of-Protection and Family-Conflict Cases

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Violence and Threat Risk

A family-offense petition asks the court to restrain future conduct based on a past act, yet the statute never mentions psychiatric prediction. Reliable risk opinions resist filling that gap with a forecast; they describe what is known, what raises or lowers concern, and what the evidence cannot settle. What the family-offense framework actually requires In New York, an order of protection in the family-conflict setting issues out of a family-offense proceeding under Family Court Act Article 8. Family Court and the criminal courts share concurrent jurisdiction over enumerated acts—among them harassment, stalking, menacing, assault, and strangulation—when committed between "members of the sam

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