TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Alice in actuarial-land: through the looking glass of changing static-99 norms
JO  - The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
A1  - Sreenivasan, Shoba
A1  - Weinberger, Linda E.
A1  - Frances, Allen
A1  - Cusworth-Walker, Sarah
SP  - 400
EP  - 406
VL  - 38
IS  - 3
N2  - The Static-99, an actuarial rating method, is employed to conduct sexual violence risk assessment in legal contexts. The proponents of the Static-99 dismiss clinical judgment as not empirical. Two elements must be present to apply an actuarial risk model to a specific individual: sample representativeness and uniform measurement of outcome. This review demonstrates that both of these elements are lacking in the normative studies of the Static-99 and its revised version, the Static-99R. Studies conducted since the publication of the Static-99 have not replicated the original norms. Sexual recidivism rates for the same Static-99 score vary widely, from low to high, depending on the sample used. A hypothetical case example is presented to illustrate how the solitary application of the Static-99 or Static-99R recidivism rates to the exclusion of salient clinical factors for identifying sexual dangerousness can have serious consequences for public safety.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1093-6793
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -