Exam 4: Assessing Risk: The Importance of Classification

In 2003, the NIC surveyed all state departments of corrections and asked if they used a specialized instrument to assess the risk posed by special-needs offenders. What did they find?

The LSI-R is a dynamic risk assessment instrument.

______ risk factors are unchanging.

Evidence-based research has shown that if all three principles are considered, recidivism can be reduced by up to______percent.

Generally speaking, severity of the current crime is a static risk factor.

Assessment of______is the first step in determining how best to address an offender's criminogenic needs.

Risk assessment is a process of separating offenders into discrete groups in such a way that offenders in the same group are similar or close to each other on certain common characteristics in order to effectively supervise and manage them.

______ is the process of separating offenders into discrete groups

The need principle focuses on which behavior patterns should be treated.

The fifth era in the development of risk and needs assessment is user-friendly.

The______principle focuses on who should be treated.

Risk and need refer to an offender's criminogenic needs and the potential they have for prompting her or him to reoffend.

The two phases of dynamic risk assessment (Phases I and II) differ in terms of:

To know for certain that a specialized assessment instrument would more accurately classify a special- needs offender than a general instrument, it would first be necessary to compare the general risk and needs assessment instrument with the specialized instrument on the same population.

The first person to use actuarial models in criminal justice on a large scale was University of Chicago sociologist______.

What is the correct order of the eras in the development of risk and needs assessment?

Risk/needs factors can be classified as either______or______.

What is the principle that focuses on which behavior patterns should be treated?

The risk principle focuses on who should be treated.

Many of the agencies that responded to the 2003 NIC survey on when they conduct risk and needs assessment replied that they assess offenders at more than one stage, but some assess at only one stage. What is that one stage?