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The conceptualization of dynamic risk factors in child sex offenders: an agency model
Roxanne Heffernan,Tony Ward +1 more
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In this paper, the authors discuss the factors that increase and decrease risk of sexual offending, including agency, motivation, and values, and integrate these normative features with risk-related factors within the action-based Agency Model of Risk (AMR).About:
This article is published in Aggression and Violent Behavior.The article was published on 2015-09-01. It has received 42 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Conceptualization & Agency (sociology).read more
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Dynamic risk factors: scientific kinds or predictive constructs
TL;DR: There are a number of theoretical problems evident in the concept of dynamic risk factors that arise from their (increasing) importation into the explanatory and treatment domains of forensic and criminal justice as discussed by the authors.
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A conceptual kaleidoscope: contemplating ‘dynamic structural risk’ and an uncoupling of risk from need
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose evidence-based risk assessment as a promising path towards more efficient, unbiased, and empirically based offender management, in custody and in the community.
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Understanding dynamic risk factors for violence
TL;DR: In this paper, the meaning of the term dynamic risk has been investigated, and it is argued that only those factors that, when changed, reduce the likelihood of violent recidivism, can be considered to be truly dynamic.
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Prediction and agency: The role of protective factors in correctional rehabilitation and desistance
TL;DR: In this article, a tentative theory of protective factors is presented, which is based on the core idea that agency is underpinned by the capacities associated with a robust first person perspective, which includes the ability to construct models of actual and possible situations and to use them to predict possible outcomes prior to acting.
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Desistance from sexual offending: Do the mainstream theories apply?:
TL;DR: The literature on desistance from crime has become well established in recent years with strong bodies of evidence supporting the role of factors such as employment, relationships and identity chan... as mentioned in this paper.
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The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Demetra Andrews,James Bonta +1 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors investigates the relationship between the beginning and maintenance of criminal activity and diverse risk predictors (singular and social, static and dynamic) in the development of criminal behaviour.
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Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution
TL;DR: This book extends evolutionary theory by formally including niche construction and ecological inheritance as additional evolutionary processes, and demonstrates how the theory can resolve long-standing problems in ecology, particularly by advancing the sorely needed synthesis of ecology and evolution.
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The accuracy of recidivism risk assessments for sexual offenders: a meta-analysis of 118 prediction studies.
TL;DR: Empirically derived actuarial measures were more accurate than unstructured professional judgment for all outcomes (sexual, violent, or any recidivism) and structured professional judgment was intermediate between the accuracy found for the actuarial Measures and for unstructuring professional judgment.
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Assessing Risk for Sexual Recidivism: Some Proposals on the Nature of Psychologically Meaningful Risk Factors:
TL;DR: The authors propose that the basic requirements for a psychologically meaningful risk factor are (a) a plausible rationale that the factor is a cause of sexual offending and (b) strong evidence that it predicts sexual recidivism.
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Where Should We Intervene? Dynamic Predictors of Sexual Offense Recidivism
R. Karl Hanson,Andrew J. Harris +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, information on dynamic (changeable) risk factors was collected through interviews with community supervision officers and file reviews of 208 sexual offense recidivists and 201 non-recidivist.
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