Risk Management

Question 1

Risk Management

Answer 1

Process of implementing strategies and services intended to mitigate identified risks
2 factors examined: static and dynamic

Question 2

RNR

Answer 2

Risk: Offenders differ and require different forms of intervention. What is the likelihood they will reoffend?
Need: Every offender has their own set of dynamic factors. cannot force everyone into management
Responsivity: Different modes of interventions that differ in their effectiveness. Examine different interactions with attributes of the offender to choose the intervention best suited for them

Question 3

Risk assessment

Answer 3

The process of evaluating the likelihood a person will reoffend within a specified period of time. Performed when offenders are up for parole

Question 4

3 stages of risk assessment

Answer 4

1. Collect information: collect as much information on an individual as possible using criminal records, court records, and third party report
2. Identify risk and protective factors: static and dynamic
3. Integrate information: arrive at judgement and decide the likelihood of reoffending.
   -either professional judgement or actuarial judgement.

Question 5

Professional judgement

Answer 5

Clinical judgement. 2 types
-Unstructured professional judgement that shows a lack of structure at all 3 steps of assessment. Clinical collects and determines what information is important. used in mental health settings
-Structured professional judgement where all information is gathered in assessment. Tells you what you should look for but is ultimately left to clinician on how to weigh each variable, HCR-20.

Question 6

Mechanical tools

Answer 6

Specific items and methods used to combine items, have not been empirically linked to recidivism.
CASA: incarcerated individual
-Goof for risk management, not necessarily for going to a parole board.

Question 7

Empirical actuarial method

Answer 7

Extremely prescriptive, determines determines how much weight each item is given, which items you need to attend to, and how to gather information for items .
-Provides a table that links to a certain score which determines how likely you are to reoffend in a given time frame.
-VRAG, SORAG, DVRAG, ODARA

Question 8

Adjusted actuarial method

Answer 8

Similar to empirical with exception that there is a room for a clinician to override risk scores on unspecified items.
-A hybrid between empirical and professional.

Question 9

Static Factors

Answer 9

-Prior convictions/incarcerations
-Prior supervision
-Early onset anti sociality
-Number of criminal associations
-History of alcohol abuse
-School failure