Psychological Service Criteria to Identify Highest Risk Offenders

Identifying potential Highest Risk Offenders

The Psychological Service will use the criteria below to identify a pool of potential HRX offenders who have a very high probability of re-offending.

Criteria for identifying potential HRX offenders

At least once a month the Psychological Service (PS) will run a query to extract from IOMS all sentenced prisoners who are within eight calendar months of their first NZ Parole Board appearance* and who are identified in any of the following HRX categories:

i. Prisoners serving a sentence of 5 years or more as a single term (not a combination of sentences) for serious sexual and/or serious violent offending, and who have a RoC/RoI score of 0.7 or above or prisoners serving a sentence of 5 years or more as a single term (not a combination of sentences) for serious sexual and/or serious violent offending, and who have previously been imprisoned for sexual and/or serious violent offending, and who have a RoC/RoI score of below 0.7 will also be considered for inclusion under this category.

ii. Prisoners serving a sentence of 5 years or more as a single term (not a combination of sentences) for serious sexual and/or serious violent offending and who score in the high category on the STATIC-AS.

iii. Prisoners who are subject to an order made pursuant to S.105 of the Criminal Justice Act 1985 or S.107 of the Parole Act 2002.

iv. Prisoners serving a sentence of Preventive Detention.

v. Offenders who had a HRX flag end-dated will be considered for HRX flag reactivation following re-imprisonment for further offences.

vi. Prisoners and offenders who pose an undue risk of further serious violent and/or sexual offending on the basis of historical factors and clinical indicators and who are not covered under categories i-v above.

*  With the exception that all prisoners serving an indeterminate sentence will be considered by PS within two months of reception.