Current Approaches to Sex‐offender Risk Assessment: a Critical Review

Abstract

This critical review considers the limitations and advantages of the clinical, actuarial and structured clinical judgement approaches as they are applied to the assessment of risk in general and sex‐offenders in particular. It concludes by endorsing an inclusive approach, acknowledging that a central ethic of clinical practice is that it should be based on a current knowledge of the research literature (Singer, cited in Douglas et al. 1999).

Citation

West, A. (2001), "Current Approaches to Sex‐offender Risk Assessment: a Critical Review", The British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 31-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636646200100018