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Improving risk assessments for sex offenders: A comparison of three actuarial scales.
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The study compared the predictive accuracy of three sex offender risk-assessment measures: the RRASOR (Hanson, 1997), Thornton's SACJ-Min (Grubin, 1998), and a new scale, Static-99, created by combining the items from the RRASOR and SACJ-Min. Predictive accuracy was tested using four diverse datasets drawn from Canada and the United Kingdom (total n = 1301). The RRASOR and the SACJ-Min showed roughly equivalent predictive accuracy, and the combination of the two scales was more accurate than either original scale. Static-99 showed moderate predictive accuracy for both sexual recidivism (r = 0.33, ROC area = 0.71) and violent (including sexual) recidivism (r = 0.32, ROC area = 0.69). The variation in the predictive accuracy of Static-99 across the four samples was no more than would be expected by chance.
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- Authors
- Hanson, R. K., & Thornton, D.
- Venue
- Law and Human Behavior
- Published
- 2000-02
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 119-136
- ISSN
- 0147-7307 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-661X
- OpenAlex
- W1967631753
- Cited by
- 1,051
- References
- 34
- FWCI
- 32.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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