1st Edition

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

Edited By Tony Ward, Clare-Ann Fortune Copyright 2017
230 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Dynamic risk factors: Scientific kinds or predictive constructs Tony Ward

2. Putting risk factors in their place: An evolutionary-developmental approach to understanding risk Russil Durrant

3. A conceptual kaleidoscope: Contemplating dynamic structural risk and decoupling risk from need Kelly Hannah-Moffat

4. Dysfunctional expertise and its relationship with dynamic risk factors in offenders Zarah Vernham and Claire Nee

5. Problems in the measurement of dynamic risk factors in sexual offenders Anthony Beech, Helen Wakeling, Fillip Szumski and Nick Freemantle

6. Challenges for the theory and application of dynamic risk factors Jacinta Cording, Sarah Beggs Christofferson and Randy Grace

7. Dynamic risk factors and sexual offending: The conundrum of assessment Sharon Casey

8. Understanding dynamic risk factors for violence Gabrielle Klepfisz, Michael Daffern and Andrew Day

9. Developing a theory of dynamic risk David Thornton

10. Dynamic risk and protective factors Ralph C. Serin, Nick Chadwick and Caleb D. Lloyd

11. Desistance and dynamic risk factors belong together Devon Polaschek

12. From dynamic risk factors to casual processes Tony Ward and Clare-Ann Fortune

Biography

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.