Dynamic risk factors: the Kia Marama evaluation.
Risk assessment is an essential part of clinical practice. Each of the three aspects of risk (static, stable, and acute dynamic) are important at various points of contact between the man and the systems that are responsible for providing service. Dynamic factors, the typical treatment and supervision targets, have received less research attention than static factors. This paper examined the extent to which pretreatment, posttreatment and change scores were associated with reoffending among men incarcerated for sexually molesting. The results were generally supportive of change in prooffending attitudes as the key to not reoffending and suggested that the perspective-taking component of empathy and the use of fantasy may be important mechanisms. Affect scales generally failed to show any relationship with reoffending, outside decreases in trait and suppressed anger. Moreover, these data suggest that we could improve our assessments and treatment through increased sensitivity to offense pathways.
Hudson
Stephen M
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Department of Psychology, University of Canterbury, PB 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. s.hudson@psyc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wales
David S
DS
Bakker
Leon
L
Ward
Tony
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D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000517:prevention & control; D003415:Crime; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011594:Psychometrics; D012008:Recurrence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors