Dynamic Risk Factors: What role should they play in the explanation, assessment and rehabilitation of...

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Tony Ward (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Clare-Ann Fortune (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Dynamic Risk Factors

What role should they play in the explanation, assessment and rehabilitation of offenders?

Tony Ward (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), Clare-Ann Fortune (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

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Routledge
21 February 2017

Rehabilitation of offenders; Criminal or forensic psychology; Law as it applies to other professions; Criminal law & procedure

Dynamic risk factors are the children of risk prediction. They were identified to help practitioners assess risk of recidivism and to set treatment targets likely to reduce reoffending. This resulted in the development of intervention programs designed to modify the characteristics of individuals and their environments associated with crime. The predictive nature of their legacy lies in their ability to provide reliable information about the likelihood of future reoffending. In this respect, dynamic risk factors are useful complements to static risk factors such as age, gender, and history of offending, and add incremental validity to recidivism prediction. Their treatment utility resides in the fact that practitioners increasingly rely on the identification of dynamic risk factors to direct correctional assessment and interventions. Thus, dynamic risk factors have a dual status. They are both useful predictors of reoffending and measures of risk status, and potential causes of reoffending, capable of serving an explanatory role as well as a predictive one. It is a simple and powerful conceptualization that has streamlined forensic and correctional research, program development, and the delivery of treatment. Despite its conceptual elegance we believe that the dual conceptualization of dynamic risk factors is problematic and these difficulties spill over into their role in assessment, assessment, treatment, and desistance contexts. In this publication, the nature and function of dynamic risk factors are investigated and their strengths and limitations identified. This book was originally published as a special issue of Psychology, Crime and Law.

Edited by: Tony Ward (Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand), Clare-Ann Fortune (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 521g
ISBN: 9781138290730
ISBN 10: 1138290734
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 21 February 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Dynamic risk factors: Scientific kinds or predictive constructs 2. Putting risk factors in their place: An evolutionary-developmental approach to understanding risk 3. A conceptual kaleidoscope: Contemplating dynamic structural risk and decoupling risk from need 4. Dysfunctional expertise and its relationship with dynamic risk factors in offenders 5. Problems in the measurement of dynamic risk factors in sexual offenders 6. Challenges for the theory and application of dynamic risk factors 7. Dynamic risk factors and sexual offending: The conundrum of assessment 8. Understanding dynamic risk factors for violence 9. Developing a theory of dynamic risk 10. Dynamic risk and protective factors 11. Desistance and dynamic risk factors belong together 12. From dynamic risk factors to casual processes

Tony Ward is the Professor of Clinical Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Clare-Ann Fortune is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.