Home      Login

Abstract: 

For the purposes of this article, “risk” refers to the probability that an offender will reoffend. Thus, high-risk offenders have a greater probability of reoffending than do low-risk offenders. How offender risk is determined is, thus, very important, because it can affect public protection and the way and manner in which offenders are supervised in—or whether they are even released into—the community. The CMC component is time consuming to administer and the scoring is somewhat involved. In practice, many probation departments that use this instrument rely more heavily on the risk component, which consists of mainly static predictors.

Keywords: 

Affiliations:  1: University of Cincinnati.