I found some info from the archives of SOIssues, I know there's more out there that really put the question out as to the validity of the static-99. Here's what i found so far.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-2730412813908232%3A6101178138&ie=UTF-8&q=static-99&oq=static&gs_l=partner.1.0.0.43045.45728.0.47625.6.5.0.1.1.0.170.769.0j5.5.0.gsnos%2Cn%3D13...0.2724j1937526j6..1ac.1.25.partner..0.6.773.U-q2QQsV_CI#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=static-99&gsc.page=1

I seem to remember the RSOL Conference's in the past, one of the presentations I believe was on 'risk assessment' and the various problems it entailed. I could be wrong on that though. Derek is right though, it's a STATIC test, just capturing 'risk level' at one point in a person's life, it doesn't change as the person moves through life.

The registry, in ALL it's forms, laws, restrictions needs to be abolished, PERIOD. No public, or 'police only'. AWA , Megan's Law, Jessica's Law, SORNA , etc. Whatever else Hell is out there. If it's slightly modified or tweaked, or even if it's reduced, lawmakers and politicians will just find a way to expand it again..that's what they DO.

Dave in the Philippines

You misconstrued what I am trying to say. I am not crapping on anyone's ideas. All I am saying is there is no cohesiveness to what anyone is doing. I am surprised you have been dealing with this crap for that long. I've been under the thumb for going on 16 years and active for almost 11. Would have been active longer if not for prison and post prison restrictions.

I agree that if what you are saying is the case, it would be better. I am also saying that it can't be the end. More changes would have to happen. Risk assessment is garbage for the Courts unless they can use it against you. Maybe that is where it needs to begin.

I could have stopped my activism in 2010 when I came off the registry. I didn't because the problem is much bigger than me.

Regardless, where else have you been active or weren't you able to before this? In seeing what you have done, I and all of us will gain a better understanding of what you want to do.

Yes Dave I understand there are limitations to the static 99. That is why I was suggesting we look at both static and dynamic risk factors like stability in employment, housing, community ties etc. But honestly go look at the recidivism stats versus the predicted recidivism of the static 99, it wasn't off by much. Certainly way more accurate than flipping a coin like Derek suggested.

I do not disagree we need to get rid of the registry in its entirety. I think it needs to happen, I question the path we are taking to get there. The gay rights movement didn't wake up one day and have the ban on gay marriage being overturned by federal judges. It was a process, and it takes time, and it takes compromise but always moving forward in the direction they wanted to go.

DO YOU PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THE NASTY ILLITERATE DRUNK IS LAUGHING HER ASS OFF RIGHT NOW??????????????

IT'S TIME TO CLOSE THIS TOPIC................

Coastie is 100% correct.

These threads need to be deleted and if that is not possible, people need to stop posting on them.

I think it ought to be common sense to never start a thread referring to her by name and when people do post on any other threat, her name should be off limits.

rewdiazepam

Coastie and Rew are correct. I apologize for bringing it up this way. Val is crazy and I don't want to feed into her delusions if grandeur.

Please, if possible close this post?

I read somewhere that the United States refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If true that tells me that they are not willing to uphold the principals of freedom at all.

I think we and every so called civilized country signed it but it's just a written agreement that really has no punishments if a country violates it. America has grown notorious for giving reasons certain people don't deserve to have basic rights extended to animals.

I have been reading about who exactly is the United Nations and what power if any do they actually have and they don't really seem equipped to do much other than declare something is unjust when I'm sure the perpetrators must already know what they are doing is wrong, they just justify it.

It's really mind boggling that 20 states have restrictions now for RSO's to be allowed to goto a nursing home. It's spreading now though to include all violent crimes with little regard to length of time of being offense free so a person could have committed a violent crime 40 years ago and lived a law abiding life since and have a stroke or dementia with no family and now be excluded from most nursing homes either by laws or by company policy. A dog can't even be homeless on purpose without it being a crime.

To live in a time when laws are actually created that create joblessness and homelessness is just really unbelievable with no regard often to length of time of being offense free just helps create generations of poverty and human suffering for all those involved.

Just caught this on the RSOL Conference portion of the RSOL website.

The Science and Policy of Risk Assessment – Melissa Hamilton
Evidence-based practices are touted as offering the best results for both the community and offenders. In particular, risk assessment is at the core of a new penology. Actuarial risk assessment is argued to represent best practices in judging future dangerousness and offering results that are objective, empirical, and standardized. This presentation challenges the foregoing assumptions that appear to support the idea that current methods of risk assessment are scientifically valid and legally acceptable. The most popular risk tools for sex offenders, Static-99, RRASOR, and VRAG, will specifically be addressed.

Dr. Melissa Hamilton

The Science and Policy of Risk Assessment
Evidence-based practices are touted as offering the best results for both the community and offenders. In particular, risk assessment is at the core of a new penology. Actuarial risk assessment is argued to represent best practices in judging future dangerousness and offering results that are objective, empirical, and standardized. This presentation challenges the foregoing assumptions that appear to support the idea that current methods of risk assessment are scientifically valid and legally acceptable. The most popular risk tools for sex offenders, Static-99, RRASOR, and VRAG, will specifically be addressed.

About Melissa
Dr. Melissa Hamilton is a visiting criminal law scholar at the University of Houston Law Center. She earned her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and a Ph.D within the fields of criminology and criminal justice from The University of Texas’s graduate program. She was an editor of the Texas Law Review, was awarded the designation of Chancellor based on academic achievement, and graduated with honors. After law school, she clerked for Judge Sam Johnson on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Hamilton also has years of prior experience in the capacities of a police officer, corrections officer, and undergraduate lecturer.

Hamilton’s research interests are oriented toward interdisciplinary scholarship involving interpersonal violence, sex crimes, mental health and the law, sentencing, and civil commitment. Her scholarship includes traditional legal analysis as well as empirical studies, and she regularly publishes in law reviews, policy journals, and social science periodicals.

Dave in the Philippines

Let's kill this thread. Please stop posting to it.

Just read this thread with HIS words! It's no wonder he wanted and hoped this thread would disappear.