TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Sex offender risk assessment: Consideration of human rights in community protection legislation
JO  - Legal and criminological psychology
A1  - Vess, James
SP  - 245
EP  - 256
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
N2  - Objectives.  Risk assessments provided to judicial decision makers as a part of the current generation of legislation for protecting the public from sexual offenders can have a profound impact on the rights of individual offenders. This article will identify some of the human rights issues inherent in using the current assessment procedures to formulate and communicate risk as a forensic expert in cases involving civil commitment, preventive detention, extended supervision, or special conditions of parole.<p /> 
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SN  - 1355-3259
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135532507X269804
ID  - ref1
ER  -