This review provides an overview and update of empirical evidence for psychologically
meaningful dynamic risk factors and protective factors for sexual offending. Using the review …

Abstract Purpose of Review Case formulations (CF) have been the cornerstone of effective
practice in clinical psychology since the 1950s and now form one of the core competencies …

Objective: Psychopathy is a serious personality disorder reputed for resistance to
correctional and forensic mental health treatment and synonymous with being high risk for …

Research indicates that approximately one third of offenders admitted to social-therapeutic
correctional facilities in Germany fail to complete treatment and that treatment dropout is …

Although the inclusion of protective factors in risk assessment is believed to improve
prediction, most risk assessment tools emphasize risk factors. In response, the Structured …

In this chapter, we review two related sets of structured professional judgment guidelines for
assessing risk for sexual violence, the Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20)(Boer, Hart, Kropp …

Interest in protective factors in risk assessment work with adjudicated populations is
increasing and evidence suggests that protective factors in structured professional judgment …

Variables conceptualized as strengths are theoretically important for the management of
recidivism risk among juveniles and adults. Although measures of strengths are related to …

Most sexual recidivism risk assessment tools focus primarily on risk factors and deficits
without consideration for strengths or protective factors which might mitigate reoffense risk …

Sexual recidivism risk assessment tools focus almost exclusively on risk factors associated
with increased rates of recidivism and do not attend to protective factors that might mitigate …