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The Comprehensive Assessment Protocol: A Systemwide Review of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offender Management Strategies (CAP)

Jurisdictions across the country recognize clearly that the effective management of sex offenders requires more than supervision and treatment. Indeed, the effective management of sex offenders demands the thoughtful integration of these and other management components and, perhaps as importantly, ongoing collaboration among those who are responsible for carrying out these activities. CSOM developed the Comprehensive Assessment Protocol: A Systemwide Review of Adult and Juvenile Sex Offender Management Strategies (CAP) to assist jurisdictions in the enhancement of their management approaches with this offender population. The CAP is a tool that, when used as designed, will guide its users through a deliberate and highly collaborative information-gathering and analysis process. It will identify with a high degree of specificity the strengths of a jurisdiction's sex offender management approach and the steps that can be taken to further enhance and strengthen its system. 

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The Importance of Assessment in Sex Offender Management: An Overview of Key Principles and Practices (2007)

This policy and practice brief provides an overview of underlying principles and promising practices relative to assessments and emphasizes the integral role that assessments play in ensuring informed and effective management of this population.  It is designed for all stakeholders who have a role in sex offender management, whether as gatherers or consumers of assessment data.  These stakeholders include judges, release decisionmakers, evaluators, treatment providers, personnel within correctional facilities, probation and parole officers, and administrators at all levels.

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Assessing the Risk of Sexual Offenders on Community Supervision: The Dynamic Supervision Project (2007)

This report reveals information about stable and acute dynamic risk factors and their implications for supervision practice; and focuses on the use of the STABLE and ACUTE risk assessment instruments. The study provides evidence that trained community supervision officers can reliably score valid and useful sex offender risk assessments.