When is historic risk history? Non-recent sexual offending and risk assessment

Peter Marston 1
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HM Prison & Probation Service, Carlisle, UK
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2024-12-12
scimago Q1
wos Q3
SJR0.717
CiteScore3.8
Impact factor1.2
ISSN02645505, 17413079
Abstract

Assessing and managing risk is seen as a key task for probation staff and its practice is outlined by the Risk of Serious Harm Guidance. This comment piece asks whether this guidance is always applied with reference to historic or non-recent sexual offending. Using a specimen case, the process is outlined and discussed. The reasons for false positive assessments are considered as are the consequences in terms of legitimacy, desistance and resources.

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Marston P. When is historic risk history? Non-recent sexual offending and risk assessment // Probation Journal. 2024.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1177/02645505241300688
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02645505241300688
TI - When is historic risk history? Non-recent sexual offending and risk assessment
T2 - Probation Journal
AU - Marston, Peter
PY - 2024
DA - 2024/12/12
PB - SAGE
SN - 0264-5505
SN - 1741-3079
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@article{2024_Marston,
author = {Peter Marston},
title = {When is historic risk history? Non-recent sexual offending and risk assessment},
journal = {Probation Journal},
year = {2024},
publisher = {SAGE},
month = {dec},
url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02645505241300688},
doi = {10.1177/02645505241300688}
}