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Abstract: In order to assess the internal structure of risk assessment of sexual recidivism of the Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG), and the STATIC-99, a principal components analysis followed by promax rotation was conducted. In a data set including adults forensic sex offenders, three interpretable components were identified both with the SORAG (n =79) and the STATIC-99 (n =254): “past criminal behaviour”, “demographic characteristics”, and “antisocial personality” for the SORAG and “criminal past behaviour”, “aggressor-victim relationship” and “sexual offence” for the STATIC-99. Prospective data were available (SORAG: n =133; STATIC-99: n =137). For both instruments, the “criminal past behaviour” factor was the only one predicting general recidivism, violent recidivism and sexual recidivism. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The study presents preliminary data relating to the recidivism risk among sex offenders (n =80) resulting from the French legal system. The objective is to evaluate the discriminant validity of two static instruments of risk assessment (Hanson and Thornton, 1999, 2003; Quinsey et al., 1995 ) according to the characteristics of the sex offenders’ victims. To our knowledge, no study of this objective was published near a French population. The standardized evaluative practice of the recidivism risk being little developed in France, we found interesting to study the level of recidivism risk among French sex offenders and to underline if this risk is varied according to certain dimensions (characteristics of the victims). The results show that the sex offenders of major victims or minor and major victims will present scores significantly higher than the offenders of minor victims. And these offenders of minor victims are different according to their family tie with the sex offenders. The results correspond with those obtained within the international literature, certainly little packed in this field. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]