As a practical guide, the report outlines the components and parameters of risk assessment instruments validated and implemented in correctional settings in the United States, provides a review of and catalogues the available knowledge regarding the accuracy and predictive validity of risk assessment instruments for adult offenders, and presents steps that might be taken to improve public safety outcomes associated with the implementation of criminal justice risk assessment tools.
Reentry strategies that incorporate case management plans based on valid assessments have the potential to reduce recidivism. New support centers offer resources, training, and assistance to improve responses to people with behavioral health needs. The StaticR is the most widely used such instrument. Many research studies have proven its predictive accuracy. Hanson, et al. Evaluations conducted by mental health professionals who base their opinions on interviews and reviewing criminal histories have not proven to be as accurate as using structured clinical judgment that incorporates validated risk assessment instruments.
Recent research has shown that the predictive accuracy of re-offense can be increased slightly when dynamic changeable factors are combined with static unchangeable factors. These include things like substance abuse, personality disorders, deviant sexual interests, emotional identification with children, and self-regulation problems.
A sex offender in a mandated treatment program will be assessed on other risk factors by a certified treatment provider using dynamic and violence risk assessment instruments designated by the SARATSO Committee.
The combination of the three instruments, static, dynamic, and violence will give a better picture of the overall risk of individuals who have previously sexually offended. The StaticR is based on static unchanging risk factors which predict the potential for sexual re-offending. This risk assessment instrument is required by law to be used by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assess every eligible sex offender prior to release on parole; by Probation, to assess every eligible sex offender pre-sentencing and on a probation case load; and by the Department of State Hospitals, prior to release of an eligible sex offender from a DSH institution.
Hate Crime. Identity Theft. Property Crime. Violent Crime. Weapon Use. White Collar Crime. Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program. National Criminal History Improvement Program. State Justice Statistics Program. Arrest-Related Deaths.
Campus Law Enforcement. Community Policing. Federal Law Enforcement. This provides a fact base for policymaking that differs from findings by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that articulate that, in a given cohort of people released from prison e.
Updates to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures can validate a new class of models, such as those that satisfy the reset principle, providing employers a more certain defense to challenges to their employment decisions. Policymakers and other decisionmakers should make determinations about risk thresholds that are applied in a particular setting e.
Data quality can limit the development of successful recidivism risk models, and policymakers should consider creating data infrastructure that supports models that adhere to the reset principle. Policymakers should understand that exploring and stressing models that adhere to the reset principle for bias will be crucial.
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