Risk assessment of sex offenders.

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Assessing female sexual offenders’ motivations and cognitions: an exploratory study (2009, background): “‘cognitive distortions’) has long been established in assessing and treating sexual offenders (Beech, Fisher, & Thornton, 2003 ; Gannon & Polaschek, 2006 ).”
A review of the factors that can influence the effectiveness of sexual offender treatment: Risk, need, responsivity, and process issues (2007, methodology): “It can be assessed by several self-report psychometric measures, as well as by Factor 2 of the Psychopathy-Checklist (PCL-R—Hare, 2003) (Beech et al., 2003).”
The integration of etiology and risk in sexual offenders: A theoretical framework (2004, background): “functioning, and substance abuse (Andrews & Bonta, 1998; Blackburn, 2000; Hollin, 1999; McGuire, 2000), while Webster, Douglas, Eaves, and Hart (1997) identified five items, from interviews with clinicians, concerning identification of (clinical) factors that they saw as being implicated in future v”
VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT: Getting Specific About Being Dynamic (2005, background): “Although Beech, Fisher, and Thornton (2003) recently reviewed research on promising dynamic risk factors for sexual violence, almost all of the research relied on single time-point estimates of the risk factors or on betweengroups comparisons of sex offenders and other groups.”