ABSTRACT

Sexual recidivism risk measures are primarily scored using official documentation (e.g. criminal records), but such reviews are time-consuming, and limited by the quality and availability of relevant information. In this study, we examined the agreement between self-reported and official file information. We conducted secondary analyses on two datasets in which 24 and 27 adult males convicted of sexual offences provided self-report information under confidential conditions, which we used to score the Static-99 and the Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests. Criminal history information was reliable across both studies, whereas victim characteristics were not. We also used self-reports to create a self-report risk scale – the Sexual Offence Self-Report Risk Scale, which was positively correlated with the Static-99 across both studies (r = .73 and .56). Our results suggest that some self-report information gathered under confidential conditions can be reliable and provide acceptably valid estimates of relative risk for research purposes when official documentation is limited.

抽象的

累犯性风险的度量标准主要是使用官方文件（例如犯罪记录）进行评分的，但是这种审核非常耗时，并且受相关信息的质量和可用性的限制。在这项研究中，我们检查了自我报告信息与官方文件信息之间的一致性。我们对两个数据集进行了二次分析，其中分别有24和27名因性犯罪而被定罪的成年男性在机密条件下提供了自我报告信息，这些信息用于对Static-99和恋童癖兴趣筛查量表进行评分。在这两项研究中，犯罪史信息都是可靠的，而受害者的特征却不可靠。我们还使用自我报告来创建自我报告风险量表-性犯罪自我报告风险量表，在两项研究中均与Static-99呈正相关（r  = .73和.56）。我们的结果表明，在官方文件受到限制的情况下，在保密条件下收集的一些自我报告信息可能是可靠的，并且可以为研究目的提供相对可接受的有效相对风险估计。