Sexual Re-Offense Risk Assessment

These sex offender re-offense risk assessment instruments are used in making predicions for sexual, and other types, of criminal re-offending.  Risk categories are usually divided into three categories - low, medium (moderate), or high risk. 

General risk factors include:  static, or unchangeable historical variables; and, dynamic, or changeable variables.

SPECIFIC RISK FACTORS:

•  STATIC (unchangeable historical variables)
  
  •  Any deviant sexual preferences
  •  Prior sexual offences
  •  Any stranger victims
  •  Early onset (<age 25)
  •  Any unrelated victims
  •  Any boy victims
  •  Diverse sexual crimes
    
•  DYNAMIC (changeable variables)
  
  •  STABLE: (endure for a relatively long time)
    
    •  alcoholism
    •  marital status
    •  personality disorders
    •  deviant sexual preferences
      
  •  ACUTE: (rapidly changing factors, present for minutes, days, or weeks)
    
    •  Negative mood
    •  Drunkenness
    •  Intimacy deficits (problems in forming satisfying love relationships)
    •  Negative peer influences (peers who support either deviant lifestyles or inadequate coping strategies)
    •  Attitudes tolerant of sexual assault (women like being raped; adult-child sex is harmless, etc.)
    •  Emotional / sexual self-regulation (Sexual preoccupation; feelings of sexual entitlement or the tendency to cope with negative affect through sexual thoughts or behavior)
    •  General self-regulation (poor self-control and the inability to follow the conventions of society)
    •  Victim access
      
•  CRIMINAL HISTORY/LIFESTYLE:
  
  •  Any prior non-sexual offences
    
•  TREATMENT HISTORY:
  
  •  Treatment dropout or non-completion