A Practical Guide for the Evaluation of Sexual Recidivism Risk in Mentally Retarded Sex Offenders
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 08, 2012
ANNOTATION: “The purpose of this article is to review actuarial risk models and their applicability to mentally retarded sex offenders and to offer by sample cases a practical and evidence-based method of applying existing models of sexual offender risk assessment to the population of intellectually disabled sex offenders under SVP/SDP evaluation” (p. 509). Sections that follow and abstract include: a practical conceptual model for sexual offender recidivism risk; “Assessment Guide for Evaluation of Sexual Recidivism Risk Among MR/ID Offenders”; base rate of sexual deviance in those with mental retardation; characteristics and types of sexual offenses in those with metal disabilities; viability of risk assessment tools and methods of risk assessment in intellectually disables sex offenders; Case A—frontal lobe impulsivity and sexual acting out; Case B—strong sexual deviance with planning capacity; and summary.
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