Assessing the risk of sexual offenders on community supervision : Évaluation du risque chez les délinquants sexuels soumis à une surveillance dans la collectivité

Consequently, the data collected for this study represented the combined efforts of community supervision officers from all Canadian provinces and territories, the Correctional Service of Canada, and the states of Alaska and Iowa. [...] The evaluation focused on the validity of the individual risk factors, as well as the validity of various methods of combining the risk factors into an overall evaluation of the offender’s supervision priority. [...] The current behaviour was to be interpreted in the context of the overall risk level previously determined by the static and stable variables. [...] In all cases, the data remained the property of the specific jurisdictions, and the researchers at Public Safety Canada were in the role of data managers. [...] Some jurisdictions required officers to attend the training, and other jurisdictions adopted all or some of the measures as standard practice; however, the decision to submit data to the research project was at the initiative of the individual officers.