Assessment

Assessing the Risk of Sexual Offenders on Community Supervision: The Dynamic Supervision Project
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.

Vermont Assessment of Sex Offender Risk (VASOR)
The Vermont Assessment of Sex Offender Risk (VASOR), developed by Robert McGrath and Stephen Hoke, is a risk assessment scale for adult male sex offenders age 18 and older. It aids clinicians, correctional caseworkers, and probation and parole officers in making placement and supervision decisions. The VASOR is composed of two scales, a 13-item reoffense risk scale and a 6-item violence scale. The reoffense risk scale is designed for assessing the likelihood of sexual recidivism. The violence scale is designed for assessing the nature of an individual's violence history and offense severity. Author contact information is listed within the manual.

Sex Offender Treatment Needs and Progress Scale
The Sex Offender Treatment Needs and Progress Scale, developed by Robert McGrath and Georgia Cumming, is designed to aid clinicians, correctional caseworkers, and probation and parole officers in identifying and monitoring the treatment needs, supervision needs, and progress of adult male sex offenders ages 18 and older. It can be used in both residential and community settings. This experimental scale consists of 22 risk factors empirically or theoretically linked to sexual offending. Each of these risk factors is potentially amenable to change and therefore is commonly a target for intervention. Author contact information is listed within the manual.