Supplemental Material for The Predictive Properties of Dynamic Sex Offender Risk Assessment Instruments: A Meta-Analysis

The predictive properties of dynamic sex offender risk assessment instruments: A meta-analysis.

Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1037/pas0000454 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 179-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Jan Willem van den Berg ◽

Wineke Smid ◽

Klaartje Schepers ◽

Edwin Wever ◽

Daan van Beek ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Sex Offender ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Assessment Instruments ◽

Sex Offender Risk Assessment

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Sex Offender Risk Assessments in the Child Protection Context. Helpful or Not?

Children Australia ◽

10.1017/cha.2012.6 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 40-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Karen Broadley

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Protection ◽

Sex Offender ◽

Low Risk ◽

Risk Assessments ◽

Assessment Instruments ◽

Dynamic Risk ◽

Sex Offender Risk Assessment ◽

Dynamic Risk Assessment

When a convicted or alleged child sex offender is living, or having contact, with his own children or stepchildren, the obvious worry is that these children are victims or will become victims of sexual abuse. One way of determining the risk of this occurring is for the convicted or alleged offender to undergo a forensic sex offender risk assessment. In this article I raise questions regarding the usefulness of sex offender risk assessments within the statutory child protection context. Most importantly, I ask whether static and dynamic risk assessment instruments can accurately predict the risk an alleged or convicted sex offender poses to his own children. I conclude that ‘high’, ‘moderate’, and ‘low’ risk outcomes of forensic sex offender risk assessments in the child protection context are unreliable and can result in error, and explain that these errors have consequences that, within the child protection context, have consequences that can be dangerous to children.

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A comparison of the predictive properties of nine sex offender risk assessment instruments.

Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1037/a0036616 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 26 (3) ◽

pp. 691-703 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Wineke J. Smid ◽

Jan H. Kamphuis ◽

Edwin C. Wever ◽

Daniël J. Van Beek

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Sex Offender ◽

Assessment Instruments ◽

Sex Offender Risk Assessment

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Comment on “The Influence of Risk Assessment Instrument Scores on Evaluators’ Risk Opinions and Sexual Offender Containment Recommendations”

Criminal Justice and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0093854817725526 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 44 (9) ◽

pp. 1236-1241

Author(s):

Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Sex Offender ◽

Sexual Offender ◽

Assessment Instrument ◽

Assessment Instruments ◽

Management Board ◽

Risk Assessment Instrument ◽

Potential Confounding Variable ◽

Standards And Guidelines ◽

And Behavior

The work of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) has been called into question as a result of the manuscript “The Influence of Risk Assessment Instrument Scores on the Evaluators’ Risk Opinions and Sexual Offender Containment Recommendations” published in Criminal Justice and Behavior (2017). This response covers the following areas: significant nomenclature problems used to describe the Adult Standards and Guidelines, the dated nature of the SOMB citations in the manuscript, the flaws in the interpretation of the use of the 17 SOMB risk factors and the SOMB policy related to risk assessment, a potential confounding variable that may explain the results obtained, and finally the work of the SOMB to foster the use of validated risk assessment instruments and evidence-based policies and practices. The SOMB takes pride in providing up-to-date, research-supported practices for its providers and would never intentionally do otherwise, as suggested by the article.

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