Integrated Threat and Risk Assessment Centre, Alberta Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Assessment. 2023 Apr;30(3):675-688. doi: 10.1177/10731911211061300. Epub 2021 Dec 14.
This study examined the Council of State Governments' five-level system for risk communication, as applied to the Static-99R and Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offense Version (VRS-SO). Aims of the system include increasing consistency in risk communication and linking risk categories to psychologically meaningful constructs. We investigated concordance between risk levels assigned by the instruments, and distributions of VRS-SO dynamic needs associated with Static-99R risk levels, among a multisite sample ( = 1,404) of persons who have sexually offended. Concordant categorical risk ratings were assigned in just over a third of cases, suggesting that consistency remains a concern with the system, particularly when conceptually disparate tools are applied. Densities of criminogenic needs varied widely among persons assigned the same risk level by the Static-99R and diverged from the descriptions ascribed by the system. These findings can inform clinical assessments and further refinement of the system.
本研究考察了州政府委员会的五级风险沟通系统，该系统应用于静态-99R 和暴力风险量表-性犯罪版本（VRS-SO）。该系统的目的包括提高风险沟通的一致性，并将风险类别与心理意义上的结构联系起来。我们调查了在多地点样本（n=1404）中，这些工具分配的风险水平之间的一致性，以及与静态-99R 风险水平相关的 VRS-SO 动态需求的分布情况，这些人曾有过性犯罪行为。在超过三分之一的情况下，分配了一致的类别风险评级，这表明该系统的一致性仍然是一个问题，特别是当应用概念上截然不同的工具时。根据静态-99R 分配相同风险级别的人的犯罪倾向需求密度差异很大，与系统所描述的情况也不同。这些发现可以为临床评估和系统的进一步完善提供信息。
