Exam 4: Assessing Risk: The Importance of Classification

Risk/needs factors can be classified as either "static"

Which risk factors are unchanging?

The "born criminal" could be distinguished by:

The fourth era in the development of risk and needs assessment was______.

You learned in this chapter that risk and needs assessment is never conducted at the pretrial stage of criminal justice processing.

Evidence-based research has shown that if all three principles are considered, recidivism can be reduced by up to what percent?

Identifying an offender's criminogenic needs makes it possible to provide appropriate treatment, programs, and support to improve his or her chances for success and to reduce the likelihood of reoffending.

The______could be distinguished by physical stigmata.

The LSI-R was designed to provide correctional staff with information on offender treatment goals.

Assessment of responsivity-related variables is the first step in determining how best to address an offender's criminogenic needs.

The first person to use actuarial models in criminal justice on a large scale was University of Chicago sociologist Earnest W. Burgess.

The first era in the development of risk and needs assessment was______.

The first phase of dynamic risk assessment began in the 1970s when Wisconsin introduced the:

The first phase of dynamic risk assessment began in the 1970s when Wisconsin introduced the Client Management Classification System.

In the actuarial era of development of risk and needs assessment, community corrections officers developed an intuitive sense, or a "gut"

Risk assessment methods enhance decision-making by ensuring that factors empirically proven to predict risk are considered in a systematic manner.

The second phase of the dynamic risk assessment era began in the late 1970s with the introduction of the______.

The first person to use a scientific approach to predict criminal traits was Cesare Beccaria.

Users of risk assessment want the next generation of risk and needs assessment instruments to provide a different instrument for ever subpopulation of offenders, for example, one for those living in urban areas, a different one for those living in rural areas, a different one for each of the different races/ethnicities, etc.

______ is the process whereby offenders are assessed on several key variables empirically known to increase the likelihood of committing an offense.