1 Static-99R Coding Rules Revised – 2016 Amy Phenix, Yolanda Fernandez, Andrew J. R. Harris, Maaike Helmus, R. Karl Hanson, & David Thornton In-Press Version 2 Table of Contents How To Use This Manual ............................................................................................................. 4 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction to Static-99R........................................................................................................... 6 Missing Items .............................................................................................................................. 7 Recidivism Criteria ..................................................................................................................... 7 Non-Contact Sex Offences ......................................................................................................... 7 Training ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Treatment .................................................................................................................................... 8 Self-Report and Static-99R ......................................................................................................... 8 Inter-Rater Reliability of Static-99R ........................................................................................... 9 Revised Risk Levels .................................................................................................................. 11 Whom Can You Use Static-99R On? ....................................................................................... 12 Time Offence-Free in the Community After Release from the Index Sex Offence ................. 13 Static-99R When the Current Offence is Not a Sexually Motivated Offence .......................... 14 Static-99R with Adolescents who Sexually Offend.................................................................. 14 Static-99R with Offenders Who are Developmentally Delayed ............................................... 15 Static-99R with Institutionalized Offenders ............................................................................. 15 Static-99R with Offenders who Aid in a Sex Offence .............................................................. 15 Static-99R with Non-Caucasian Sex Offenders ........................................................................ 16 Static-99R and Offenders with Mental Health Issues ............................................................... 16 Static-99R and Gender Transformation .................................................................................... 16 Information Required to Score Static-99R ............................................................................... 18 Polygraph Information .............................................................................................................. 18 Standards of Proof and Coding Static-99R ............................................................................... 19 Definitions .................................................................................................................................... 20 Sex Offence .................................................................................................................................. 20 Category “A” and Category “B” Offences ............................................................................... 21 Probation, Parole or Conditional Release Violations as Sex Offences ..................................... 25 Institutional Rule Violations ..................................................................................................... 26 What Counts as a Conviction/Sentencing Date Versus a Charge .......................................... 28 Conviction/Sentencing Date ....................................................................................................... 28 Determining Whether Something is a Conviction .................................................................... 29 Probation, Parole, or Conditional Release Violation ................................................................ 29 Charges ........................................................................................................................................ 36 Situations That Do Not Count as Charges OR Convictions ................................................... 37 Index Sex Offence ....................................................................................................................... 38 Offence Clusters, Pseudo-Recidivism, Historical Offences, and Prior Offences .................. 38 Historical Offences ................................................................................................................... 38 Index Cluster ............................................................................................................................. 38 Pseudo-Recidivism ................................................................................................................... 40 2 3 Post-Index Offences .................................................................................................................. 40 Prior Offence(s) ........................................................................................................................ 41 Separating Index Clusters and Prior Offences .......................................................................... 42 Scoring the 10 Items.................................................................................................................... 45 Item # 1 – Age at Release from Index Sex Offence ................................................................. 46 Item # 2 – Ever Lived with an Intimate Partner – 2 Years………...………………………….49 Item # 3 – Index Non-Sexual Violence (NSV) – Any Convictions .......................................... 52 Item # 4 – Prior Non-Sexual Violence – Any Convictions ...................................................... 58 Item # 5 – Prior Sex Offences ................................................................................................... 63 Item # 6 – Prior Sentencing Dates ............................................................................................ 68 Item # 7 – Any Convictions for Non-Contact Sex Offences .................................................... 70 Items #8, #9, & # 10 – The Three Victim Questions ................................................................ 74 Item # 8 – Any Unrelated Victims? .......................................................................................... 79 Item # 9 – Any Stranger Victims? ............................................................................................ 82 Item # 10 – Any Male Victims? ................................................................................................ 84 Scoring Static-99R & Computing the Risk Estimates ............................................................. 85 Appendix A: Self-Test................................................................................................................. 86 Appendix B: References ............................................................................................................. 88 Appendix C: Static-99R Coding Form and Comments ........................................................... 93 3 4 How To Use This Manual This manual comprises the third published version of the Static-99, and now Static-99R, Coding Rules (previous versions: Hanson & Thornton, 1999; Harris, Phenix, Hanson, & Thornton, 2003). Each Coding Manual has been designed to provide greater detail and a more comprehensive review of how to code Static-99 and Static-99R. This is the first set of coding rules designed for the revised version: Static-99R. The Static-99R Coding Rules are designed to be used in all jurisdictions where Static-99R is scored. We recommend that evaluators using Static-99 should switch to Static-99R (Helmus, Thornton, Hanson, & Babchishin, 2012). If, however, evaluators still use Static-99 (for example, following legal or administrative requirements), these coding rules should be applied to Static-99 as well (with the exception that the age weights differ between Static-99 and Static-99R). Additionally, those using Static-99 should not report the recidivism norms from the 2003 Coding Manual as they are outdated and obsolete and should not be used in forensic evaluations or considered in applied decisions (instead, see Helmus, Hanson, & Thornton, 2009). Although the 2009 norms are not ideal, they are preferable to the 2003 norms. In particular though, the 2009 Static-99 norms should not be used for offenders who are aged 60 or older at release, as they have been found (Helmus, Thornton et al., 2012) to substantially overestimate risk of recidivism (or if an evaluator is legally required to use them, they should note that it is an overestimate). In most cases, scoring Static-99R is fairly straightforward for an experienced evaluator. If you are unfamiliar with this instrument, we suggest that you turn to the back pages of this manual and find the one-page Static-99R Coding Form. You may want to keep a copy of this to one side as you review the manual. The purpose of the scoring manual is to provide all information necessary