The relationship between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and violence is poorly understood. Several violence risk factors are either modified by or are unique to ASD; clinicians conducting violence risk assessment of people with ASD must consider these factors. An ASD-specific risk assessment tool is clearly needed. In the absence of this, clinicians often use risk assessment tools designed for other populations, highlighting the importance of establishing their predictive validity in people with ASD. Girardi and colleagues have taken a very important step in this process in their paper, "Assessing the Risk of Inpatient Violence in Autism Spectrum Disorder," by examining whether the Historical Clinical Risk Management-20, Version 3, can predict violence in male patients with ASD in a forensic setting. Further research is needed to design a risk assessment tool specific to ASD and its unique features.

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对自闭症中暴力风险评估的结构化方法的需求。

对自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）与暴力之间的关系了解甚少。ASD修改了一些暴力风险因素或它们是独特的；对自闭症患者进行暴力风险评估的临床医生必须考虑这些因素。显然需要一种针对ASD的风险评估工具。在没有这种情况的情况下，临床医生经常使用为其他人群设计的风险评估工具，从而强调了在ASD患者中建立其预测效度的重要性。Girardi及其同事在研究“自闭症谱系障碍患者住院暴力风险的评估”这一过程中迈出了非常重要的一步，研究了《历史临床风险管理》第20版第3版是否可以预测患有以下疾病的男性患者的暴力行为： ASD位于法医环境中。