Cross-Cultural Validity of Sexual Recidivism Risk Assessments Using Static-99R, STABLE-2007, and the VRS-SO.

IF 5.5 2区医学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY

Current Psychiatry Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-11 DOI:10.1007/s11920-023-01480-2

L Maaike Helmus, Simran Ahmed, Seung C Lee, Mark E Olver

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Abstract

Purpose of review: The overrepresentation of certain racial/ethnic groups in criminal legal systems raises concerns about the cross-cultural application of risk assessment tools. We provide a framework for conceptualizing and measuring racial bias/fairness and review research for three tools assessing risk of sexual recidivism: Static-99R, STABLE-2007, and VRS-SO.

Recent findings: Most cross-cultural research examines Static-99R and generally supports its use with Black, White, Hispanic, and Asian men. Preliminary research also supports STABLE-2007 with Asian men. Findings are most concerning for Indigenous men, where Static-99R and STABLE-2007 significantly predict sexual recidivism, but with significantly and meaningfully lower accuracy compared to White men. For the VRS-SO and the combined Static-99R/STABLE-2007 risk levels, predictive accuracy was not significantly lower for Indigenous men, for which we discuss several possible explanations. We offer considerations for risk scale selection with Indigenous men and highlight recent guidance produced for cross-cultural risk assessment.

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使用 Static-99R、STABLE-2007 和 VRS-SO 进行性累犯风险评估的跨文化有效性。

审查目的：某些种族/民族群体在刑事法律系统中的比例过高，引起了人们对风险评估工具跨文化应用的关注。我们提供了一个概念化和衡量种族偏见/公平性的框架，并回顾了三种评估性累犯风险工具的研究：最近的研究结果：大多数跨文化研究都对 Static-99R 进行了审查，并普遍支持将其用于黑人、白人、西班牙裔和亚裔男性。初步研究也支持对亚裔男性使用 STABLE-2007。对土著男性的研究结果最令人担忧，Static-99R 和 STABLE-2007 能显著预测性犯罪累犯，但与白人男性相比，准确性明显要低得多。对于 VRS-SO 和 Static-99R/STABLE-2007 组合风险等级，土著男性的预测准确性并没有明显降低，对此我们讨论了几种可能的解释。我们提出了针对土著男性选择风险量表的注意事项，并重点介绍了最近为跨文化风险评估制定的指南。

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Current Psychiatry Reports PSYCHIATRY-

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11.30

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6-12 weeks

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