Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP)

Stephen D. Hart, P. Randall Kropp, D. Richard Laws, Jessica Klaver, Caroline Logan, & Kelly A. Watt

In partnership with Mental Health, Law, and Policy Institute, Simon Fraser University, as well as the British Columbia Institute Against Family Violence

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Structured professional guidelines are designed to assist the process of risk assessment and management by requiring evaluators to consider, at a minimum, a set of risk factors deemed important in the scientific and professional literatures.

The RSVP is similar to previous guidelines (SVR-20, HCR-20, PCL-R) in many respects but incorporates many new features.

These include:

Specification of procedures for obtaining assessment information;
Expanded consideration of risk factors related to manageability;
Separate coding of judgments concerning the presence and relevance of risk factors; and
Incorporation of scenario-based risk assessment methods.

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A highly descriptive example worksheet is included to facilitate documentation. RSVP is an essential tool for any professional responsible for the case management of sex offenders.

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