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"The Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada has initiated a number of studies to improve Canadians' understanding both of the decision making processes leading to the release of inmates from penitentiary to Parole and Mandatory Supervision programs, and of the impacts of those decisions... The current report focuses, not on General Release Risk, but on the risk of Violent recidivism. In addition, the report investigates whether or not defining violence in a broad or narrow fashion has any implications for the nature and effectiveness of risk scoring systems."--Page 1,2.