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- Title
EXPLORING THE VALIDITY OF STATIC-99 WITH INMATE SEX OFFENDERS IN BELGIUM.
- Authors
Pham, Thierry; Ducro, Claire
- Abstract
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TWOFOLD: TO ASSESS RECIDIVISM RISK IN A SAMPLE OF ADULT INMATE SEX OFFENDERS IN BELGIUM (N = 325) AND TO MEASURE THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF THE STATIC-99 (HANSON & THORNTON, 1999, 2002) FOR FOUR TYPES OF RECIDIVISM: GENERAL (GR), SEXUAL (SR), VIOLENT NON-SEXUAL (VNSR), AND NON-VIOLENT NON-SEXUAL (NVNSR). THE MEAN FOLLOW-UP PERIOD AFTER RELEASE FROM PRISON WAS ABOUT FOUR YEARS. FOR THE OVERALL SAMPLE, THE RATES WERE 25.2% FOR GR, 6.5% FOR SR, 5.9% FOR VNSR, AND 15.4% FOR NVNSR. SECOND, ON THE BASIS OF THE CLASSIFICATION PROPOSED BY COHEN (1992), THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF THE STATIC-99 PROVED GOOD FOR SR AND MODERATE FOR GR AND VNSR.
- Publication
Acta Psychiatrica Belgica, 2014, Vol 114, Issue 1, p28
- ISSN
0300-8967
- Publication type
Academic Journal