Risk assessment communication difficulties: An empirical examination of the effects of categorical versus probabilistic risk communication in sexually violent predator decisions

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 532-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Krauss ◽  
Gabriel I. Cook ◽  
Lukas Klapatch
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Sexually Violent Predator ◽  
Communication Difficulties ◽  
Sexually Violent ◽  
Probabilistic Risk

Risk communication in sexually violent predator hearings

2009 ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a
Author(s):  
Sarah Scott ◽  
Brett Gilcrist ◽  
Nicole Thurston ◽  
Matthew T. Huss
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Sexually Violent Predator ◽  
Sexually Violent

Reliability of risk assessment measures used in sexually violent predator proceedings.

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 944-953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cailey S. Miller ◽  
Eva R. Kimonis ◽  
Randy K. Otto ◽  
Suzonne M. Kline ◽  
Adam L. Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Sexually Violent Predator ◽  
Sexually Violent ◽  
Assessment Measures

Rater (dis)agreement on risk assessment measures in sexually violent predator proceedings: Evidence of adversarial allegiance in forensic evaluation?

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Murrie ◽  
Marcus T. Boccaccini ◽  
Darrel B. Turner ◽  
Meredith Meeks ◽  
Carol Woods ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Forensic Evaluation ◽  
Sexually Violent Predator ◽  
Sexually Violent ◽  
Assessment Measures

Constituting the ‘sexually violent predator’: Law, forensic psychology, and the adjudication of risk

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Vogler
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Forensic Psychology ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Sexually Violent Predator ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
Actuarial Risk Assessment ◽  
Sexually Violent ◽  
Actuarial Risk ◽  
Static Risk

Considerable socio-legal scholarship demonstrates law’s constitutive power, and much criminological research has considered the effects of actuarial risk assessment. However, these strands have rarely been brought together to consider how legal risk assessment practices constitute sexual subjects. This article argues that law and forensic psychology co-constitute the category of the ‘sexually violent predator’ (SVP) as a distinct type of person through the use of psychiatric diagnosis and actuarial risk assessment. Contrary to dominant views of actuarialism as de-individualizing, this article asserts that SVP proceedings are centrally concerned with individualized intervention, yet such proceedings continue to produce static risk subjects rather than the dynamic subjects identified in recent research on actuarial practices. It is argued that this stems from entrenched cultural views of sexuality as a fixed essence inherent in individuals. The risk assemblage in SVP proceedings therefore presents a unique theoretical case that does not clearly fit prevailing accounts of actuarialism.

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