Evaluation and applications of the Clinically Significant Change method with the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender version : Implications for risk-change communication

Olver, Mark E.

Evaluation and applications of the Clinically Significant Change method with the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender version : Implications for risk-change communication Mark E. Olver, Sarah M. Beggs Christofferson and Stephen C.P. Wong - Wiley Online Library, 2015 - Behavioral Sciences & the Law .

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2015, 33: 92-110

The authors examined the use of the clinically significant change (CSC) method with the Violence
Risk Scale-Sexual Offender version (VRS-SO), and its implications for risk communication, in a combined sample of 945 treated sexual offenders from three international settings, followed up for a minimum 5 years post-release. This paper is based on research in Canada and New Zealand (Kia Marama Special Treatment Unit). Record #4619


Kia Marama Special Treatment Unit


SEXUAL VIOLENCE
BEHAVIOUR CHANGE
RECIDIVISM
RISK ASSESSMENT
SEX OFFENDERS


CANADA
NEW ZEALAND