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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 17 PUBLIC SAFETY
17.554 Sex Offender Risk Assessment Advisory Board -- Risk assessment procedure.
Download pdfevaluations and treatment. (2) The board shall develop a comprehensive sex offender presentence evaluation that shall be used by approved providers in assessing the risk of recommitting a sex
crime by a sex offender, the threat posed to public safety, amenability to sex
offender treatment, and the nature of the required sex offender treatment. The
evaluation shall be based upon, but not limited to the following factors:
(a) Criminal history;
(b) Nature of the offense;
(c) Conditions of release that minimize risk;
(d) Physical conditions that minimize risk;
(e) Psychological or psychiatric profiles;
(f) Recent behavior that indicates an increased risk of recommitting a sex crime;
(g) Recent threats or gestures against persons or expressions of an intent to commit additional offenses; and (h) Review of the victim impact statement. Effective: April 11, 2000
History: Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 401, sec. 21, effective April 11, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 606, sec. 142, effective July 15, 1998.
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