Improving Risk Assessments for Sex Offenders: A Comparison of Three Actuarial Scales

By R. Hanson, D. Thornton. Law and Human Behavior, 2000

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Michael C. Seto
2. J. Levenson
3. Leam A. Craig
4. A. Beech
5. D. Thornton
6. R. K. Hanson
7. G. Willis
8. R. Wollert

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Michael C. Seto
2. G. Willis
3. D. Thornton
4. R. Wollert
5. R. K. Hanson
6. A. Beech
7. Leam A. Craig
8. L. Helmus

Citations in the corpus

• Sexual offenders with learning disabilities: risk, recidivism and treatment (2005, methodology): “The Static-99 and SORAG were both significantly predictive of sexual, violent and any recidivism for extrafamilial child molesters, whereas all four tests were at least moderately predictive of sexual recidivism for incest offenders.”
• The Predictive Validity of a General Risk/Needs Assessment Inventory on Sexual Offender Recidivism and an Exploration of the Professional Override (2012, background): “(Barbaree, Langton, & Peacock, 2006; Craig, Browne, & Stringer, 2004; Dempster, 1998; gentry, Dulmus, & Theriot, 2005; Hanson & Thornton, 2000; Harris et al., 2003; Yang, Wong, & Coid, 2010).”
• The accuracy of recidivism risk assessments for sexual offenders: a meta-analysis of 118 prediction studies. (2009, methodology): “For the prediction of sexual recidivism, the best supported measures were Static–99 (Hanson & Thornton, 2000), Static–2002 (Hanson & Thornton, 2003), MnSOST–”
• Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the “successful” sex offender (2011, methodology): “Hence, the items of the Static-99 seem to be targeting the less productive sex offenders, who are also the least efficient at avoiding detection.”
• Public Perceptions About Sex Offenders and Community Protection Policies (2007, background): “…are useful for screening offenders into relative risk categories (Barbaree, Seto, Langton, & Peacock, 2001; Epperson et al., 1999b; Hanson, 1997; Hanson & Thornton, 1999, 2000; Harris et al., 2003; Quinsey et al., 1998) By using risk assessment to identify the most dangerous offenders,…”
• Characterizing the Value of Actuarial Violence Risk Assessments (2007, background): “Wollert cited Hanson and Thornton (2000) as authoritative in reporting a sexual recidivism rate of 25% in 15 years; the overall rate was actually 25% in an average of 13 years.”
• Dimensions Associated with Assessments of Sex Offender Recidivism Risk (2002, methodology): “Cross-validation studies have almost uniformly been supportive for these instruments (Barbaree, Seto, Langton, & Peacock, 2001; Doren, 2000; Hanson & Thornton, 2000; Rice & Harris, 1997).”
• The efficacy of violence prediction: a meta-analytic comparison of nine risk assessment tools. (2010, methodology): “Studies conducted with the first approach have compared the PCL-R (Hare et al., 1990), the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG; Quinsey, Harris, Rice, & Cormier, 1998), the Violence Risk Assessment Scheme (HCR-20; Webster et al., 1997) ), and Static 99 (Hanson & Thornton, 2000).”
• The Relationship Between Static and Dynamic Risk Factors and Reconviction in a Sample of U.K. Child Abusers (2002, background): “A great deal of work has taken place in developing risk prediction instruments for sexual offenders (e.g., Sex Offense Risk Appraisal Guide [SORAG], Quinsey, Harris, Rice, & Cormier, 1998; Static-99, Hanson & Thornton, 2000; Sexual Violence Scale [SVR-20], Boer, Hart, Kropp, & Webster, 1997).”
• Assessing Risk for Sexual Recidivism: Some Proposals on the Nature of Psychologically Meaningful Risk Factors (2010, methodology): “On average, these frameworks show similar levels of predictive accuracy to static risk factor scales and, in most cases, add incremental predictive validity beyond Static-99 (Beech, Friendship, Erikson, & Hanson, 2002; Knight & Thornton, 2007; Olver et al., 2007; Thornton, 2002a).”
• societal reaction to sex offenders: a review of the origins and results of the myths surrounding their crimes and treatment amenability (2004, background): “Although efforts to create reliable psychometric instruments continues with moderate success (Abel, Jordan, Hand, Holland, and Phipps 2001; Hanson 2000), there also have been attempts to merge data with clinical interview data to improve risk assessment (Fisher and Thornton 1993).”
• LOW BASE RATES LIMIT EXPERT CERTAINTY WHEN CURRENT ACTUARIALS ARE USED TO IDENTIFY SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS An Application of Bayes's Theorem (2006, background): “Static-99 (Hanson & Thornton, 2000).”