Sexual Violence Risk Assessment

Actuarial Risk Assessment of Sexual Offenders

Risk Assessment for Sexual Offenders

Risk Assessment in Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses

A Brief History of Sexual Offender Risk Assessment

The assessment of risk of further offending behavior by adult sexual perpetrators has come a long way since the early 1900s. From risk estimations based on clinical observation and environmental changes in the 1920s, anthropological and longitudinal studies of juvenile offenders in the 1930s, the examination of psychoneurotic patients in the 1940s to the application of actuarial prediction to clinical assessment in the 1950s, researchers and practitioners have sought to identify valid and reliable measures of recidivism risk in sexual offenders. The emphasis in risk prediction slowly changed following Meehl’s (1954) seminal contributions to the clinical-statistical debate which introduced t…

Neurobiological Considerations on the Etiological Approach to Sexual Offender Assessment