Acute-2007
Definition
A 7-item rapid-assessment instrument for short-term fluctuating risk factors (victim access, emotional collapse, substance abuse) used at each supervision contact to detect immediate elevated risk.
Related terms
- ATSA (Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers)
- The primary international professional body for sex-offender treatment providers and evaluators; publishes practice standards and guidelines that govern responsible use of risk...
- BSA 2023 § 39
- Section 39 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023, the provision governing expert opinion evidence in Indian courts. Replaced Indian Evidence Act 1872...
- POCSO 2012
- The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012 (India); establishes criminal liability for child sexual abuse but does not mandate sex-offender...
- SRM (Sex Offender Risk Management) Framework
- The integrated cycle of static assessment, dynamic assessment, treatment matching, supervision calibration, and community safety planning that converts risk scores into actionable...
- Stable-2007
- A 13-item dynamic risk assessment instrument measuring slowly changing characteristics (sexual preoccupation, intimacy deficits, impulsivity) that treatment programmes target; used alongside Static-99R...
- Static-99R
- A 10-item actuarial sex-offender risk instrument; the -R denotes the age-at-release weighting adjustment. Scores map to relative-risk labels (Below Average through Well...
- SVP Civil Commitment
- A US legal mechanism (following Kansas v. Hendricks, 1997) that allows indefinite civil detention of convicted sex offenders assessed as likely to...
Explained in
- Sex-Offender Risk Assessment: Static-99R, Stable-2007 and SRMA 7-item rapid-assessment instrument for short-term fluctuating risk factors (victim access, emotional collapse, substance abuse) used at each supervision cont...