ABSTRACT
A complete assessment of sexual coercion needs to consider static actuarial risk, an assessment of dynamic factors and sexual deviance. Prior to the 1990s there were no structured approaches to violence, or sexual violence, risk assessment. R. K. Hanson and K. Morton-Bourgon identify a second category of dynamic risk assessment instruments they term Mechanical. An important part of the assessment of sexual aggression includes the assessment of sexual arousal patterns. Audiotaped assessments of sexual interest in children have also been found to reliably identify child sexual offenders. Proponents of the structured professional judgment approach to the assessment of sexual offenders argue that this assessment method ties directly into treatment by allowing for a case formulation based on the assessment of dynamic factors and change on dynamic factors can be assessed and tied to reduction in risk. The dynamic risk measure which has received significant research attention is the sexual violence risk-20.
