Improving Risk Assessments for Sex Offenders: A Comparison of Three Actuarial Scales |
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Authors: | Hanson R Karl Thornton David |
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Institution: | (1) Department of the Solicitor General of Canada, Corrections Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0P8;(2) Offender Behaviour Programmes Unit, Room 701, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Abell House, John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4LH, England |
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Abstract: | The study compared the predictive accuracy of three sex offender risk-assessment measures: the RRASOR (Hanson, 1997), Thornton's SACJ-Min (Grubin, 1998), and a new scale, Static-99, created by combining the items from the RRASOR and SACJ-Min. Predictive accuracy was tested using four diverse datasets drawn from Canada and the United Kingdom (total n = 1301). The RRASOR and the SACJ-Min showed roughly equivalent predictive accuracy, and the combination of the two scales was more accurate than either original scale. Static-99 showed moderate predictive accuracy for both sexual recidivism (r = 0.33, ROC area = 0.71) and violent (including sexual) recidivism (r = 0.32, ROC area = 0.69). The variation in the predictive accuracy of Static-99 across the four samples was no more than would be expected by chance. |
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