ABSTRACT

This paper examines police and national probation service (NPS) practitioners’ experiences of utilising a dynamic risk management tool with registered sexual offenders (RSOs) in the community. The Active Risk Management System (ARMS) was designed as a multi-agency tool providing police with a dynamic tool for use with RSOs and the NPS with a sexual offender specific tool to support their original dynamic risk tool OASys (Offender Assessment System). Based on both quantitative and qualitative research with every police force and every NPS division in England and Wales, this paper highlights that despite a comprehensive adoption of ARMS within policing practice, the theoretical benefits of the ARMS tool have unfortunately not been realised. The resource implications of the tool’s utilisation, the different needs and siloed working practices of the police and NPS as well as a staggered implementation of the tool across both agencies has presented challenges for the practical use of ARMS in both single and joint agency offender management.

摘要

本文考察了警察和国家缓刑服务 (NPS) 从业人员在社区中对注册性犯罪者 (RSO) 使用动态风险管理工具的经验。主动风险管理系统 (ARMS) 被设计为一个多机构工具，为警察提供与 RSO 一起使用的动态工具，为 NPS 提供一个性犯罪者特定工具，以支持其原始动态风险工具 OASys（罪犯评估系统）。基于对英格兰和威尔士每个警察部队和每个 NPS 部门的定量和定性研究，本文强调，尽管在警务实践中全面采用了 ARMS，但遗憾的是尚未实现 ARMS 工具的理论优势。该工具的使用对资源的影响，