Structured Professional Judgment Guidelines for Sexual Violence Risk Assessment: e Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20) and Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP)

doi:10.4324/9780203843666-20

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Structured Professional Judgment Guidelines for Sexual Violence Risk Assessment: e Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20) and Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP)

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ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we review two related sets of structured professional judgment guidelines for assessing risk for sexual violence, the Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20) (Boer, Hart, Kropp, & Webster, 1997) and the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP) (Hart, Kropp, Laws, Klaver, Logan, & Watt, 2003). e manuals have proven to be very popular and are in wide use internationally. More than 5,000 copies of the original English editions have been distributed, and authorized translations are available in several languages including Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.