Dynamic Risk Assessment In The Early 20th Century

The inept risk and assessment in the early 20th century which relied on subjective and static assessment resulted in unfitted corrective action for offenders. As a result, dynamic risk assessment was developed to improve the deficiency. Dynamic risk assessment included static factors but also dynamic factors to properly assess risk and needs of offenders. The dynamic risk assessment is separated into two phases. The first phase began in the 1970s with the introduction of the Client Management Classification System (CMC) by Wisconsin Department of Correction. According to the CMC there are 10 dynamic and static factors that contribute to an offender’s risk are: address changes in past 12 months, employment in past 12 months, alcohol usage, other drug usage, attitude, age of
100). The problem with this phase is that no human interaction between the offenders and supervision officers prior to or during the questionnaire assessment. Another critical CMC fail to address is the consideration of the “diverse geographical populations by distinguished by race, ethnicity, or gender” (Bayens, pg 100). These issues are address by the second phase of dynamic risk assessment. The second phase occurred in the late 1970s and it is refer to as the Level of Service Inventory- Revised (LSI-R). LSI-R consists of 10 theoretically based areas and further divided into 54 subscales to determine future criminal behavior. They are criminal history (10 items, education and employment (10 items), finances (2 items, family and marital relationships (4 items), housing and accommodations (3 items), leisure and recreation (2 items), friends and acquaintances (5 items), alcohol and drug use (9 items), emotional and personal (5 items), attitudes and orientations (4 items) (Bayens, pg. 100-101). LSI-R criteria to for assessment are more details than CMC. In addition, part of the assessment includes an interview with the