This article considers factors that support or assist desistance from sexual offending in those
who have previously offended. Current risk assessment tools for sexual offending focus …

Objective: Emotional congruence with children is an exaggerated affective and cognitive
affiliation with children that is posited to be involved in the initiation and maintenance of …

Most risk assessment scales are developed to broadly rank individuals according to their
risk to reoffend, not to inform particular legal decisions. Consequently, there is almost always …

STABLE-2007 is a measure of risk-relevant propensities for adult males convicted of a
sexual offense. This meta-analysis evaluated the ability of STABLE-2007 and its items to …

The current paper critically reviews the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) and Good Lives
Model (GLM) approaches to correctional treatment. Research, or the lack thereof, is …

This article describes principles for developing risk category labels for criterion referenced
prediction measures, and demonstrates their utility by creating new risk categories for the …

The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for violence risk (SAPROF) has recently
been developed as a risk assessment tool to focus solely on protective factors for (sexual) …

Many forensic assessment measures are developed and validated under research
conditions but applied in the field, where professionals or paraprofessionals have varied …

Objectives: Few studies have examined how much individuals change on intermediate
targets of risk to reoffend. Even fewer studies have examined the extent to which change on …

Effective intervention with offenders requires accurate identification of their risk-relevant
propensities. In this prospective study, 139 Canadian community supervision officers were …