Current Research
Our Research Team is working on the following projects::
- Framework for Risk Assessment Management and Evaluation: FRAME
- Level of Service Case Management Inventory: LSCMI
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Stable and Acute 2007:SA07
1. Framework for Risk Assessment Managment and Evaluation: FRAME
The RMA working in partnership with a range of stakeholders, sponsors the FRAME Working Group. The research related objectives of the project are:
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To inform Policy decisions relating to risk assessment and management with learning from national and international research and practice.
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To promote implementation integrity by incorporating agreed quality assurance and evaluation mechanisms.
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To develop practice guidance in support of consistent, meaningful and proportionate risk assessment, management and evaluation.
2. Risk Assessment Tools Evaluation Directory: RATED
RATED contains information on the attributes, validation history and empirical grounding of a large number of risk assessment instruments and provides practitioners with information on the strengths and limitations of each tool. We are currently working on version three with the intention of publication in 2012. Version two of the Risk Assessment Tools Evaluation Directory (RATED) is available to download here.
3. Level of Service Case Management Inventory: LSCMI (Andrews, Bonta and Wormith 2004)
The Level of Service Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI)) is an assessment and management tool that incorporates the principles of risk, need and responsivity. It is a substantial revision of the existing, widely used Level of Service Inventory - Revised (LSI-R) assessment tool. LS/CMI has been chosen by the Scottish government, The Association of Directors of Social Work and The Scottish Prison Service to provide a common, structured in the community and custodial settings approach.
The RMA has worked closely with those agencies through the LS/CMI national working group to support them in the challenges of implementation.
4. Stable and Acute 2007: SA07 (Hanson, Harris and Helmus 2007)
The SA07 is a risk assessment tool for sexual offenders that incorporates two types of risk factors: stable dynamic factors, which are potentially changeable but endure for months or years; and acute dynamic factors which may change over a period of weeks, days or even hours.
SA07 was selected by the Association of Chief Police Officers of Scotland, the Association of Directors of Social Work and The Scottish Prison Service as a shared approach to risk assessment of sex offenders to support joint working in the multi agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA).
