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      Sexual offender risk assessment strategies: is there a convergence of opinion yet?

      Boer, Douglas Pieter
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      Boer, D.P. (2006). Sexual offender risk assessment strategies: is there a convergence of opinion yet? Sexual Offender Treatment, 1(2), 1-4.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6302
      Abstract
      While there is no convergence of opinion in the academic literature, many clinicians have already adopted a convergent approach to risk assessment, whether through deliberate adoption of complementary instruments or through informal clinical modification of risk assessment instrument findings. The present paper suggests that a convergent approach to risk assessment may be both the most responsible and most appropriate approach at this time, given the lack of research to substantiate a strong superiority of one type of instrument (actuarial risk tests versus structured clinical guidelines) over the other as well as the complementary nature of these types of tests in terms of how risk is conceptualized and analyzed. The research in a convergent approach is meager and this issue deserves some attention to ensure that all clinicians doing risk assessments of sexual offenders are providing the most information possible to decision makers to protect the rights, safety, and security of our clients (the correctional and justice systems, the public, and the offenders).
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      2006
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      Journal Article
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      International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO)
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      This article has been published in the journal: Sexual Offender Treatment. Used with permission.
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