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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 commit further sexually violent offences; the primary US context for adversarial Static-99R admissibility litigation.

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Static-99RAcute-2007ATSAATSA (Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers)BSA 2023 § 39Criminogenic needGood Lives Model (GLM)Moral reconation therapy (MRT)POCSO 2012Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR)SOTPSRM (Sex Offender Risk Management) framework

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