Illinois Administrative Code › Title 20 - CORRECTIONS, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Part 1905 › Subpart C - APPROVAL AND REMOVAL PROCEDURES › Section 1905.130 - Risk Reduction and Risk Management in the Community

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Many adult sexual abusers residing in the
				community are supervised under the jurisdiction of the courts, correctional
				departments, probation or parole divisions or mental health agencies.
				Approaches to reducing and managing risk in the community may involve imposing
				various supervision conditions, expectations and requirements; monitoring and
				tracking; linking clients to appropriate programs and services; facilitating
				successful reentry to and stability in the community following release from
				correctional or other facility custody; promoting continuity of care within and
				across facility-based programs and services and community-based services;
				educating and engaging the public and communities; using and encouraging other
				system partners to use empirically informed assessment information to guide
				interventions and strategies; and engaging positive community support networks,
				which may include trained volunteers. Some strategies are explicitly designed
				to reduce the recidivism risk of sexual abusers by assisting them with
				developing and enhancing prosocial attitudes, skills and behaviors; increasing
				healthy and appropriate interests; effectively managing risk factors;
				developing positive and prosocial community supports; and enhancing other
				protective factors. Other strategies are primarily designed to promote
				accountability, deterrence and risk management.
b) Research indicates that focusing
				supervision activities primarily or exclusively on risk management is not
				effective in reducing recidivism, whereas using risk-reducing interventions,
				such as treatment and other skill-building interventions, to complement risk
				management-based supervision strategies leads to better outcomes. To support a
				balance of risk reduction and risk management efforts, contemporary trends
				involving sexual abusers in the community often emphasize multidisciplinary and
				multi-agency collaborations. These collaborative efforts are part of
				contemporary practices in the treatment and supervision of sexual abusers, as
				supported by the extant literature. It may include communication and
				partnerships among professionals, such as sexual abuser-specific treatment
				providers and other treatment providers (e.g., substance abuse, mental health,
				marital and family therapists), probation or parole officers, case managers,
				child welfare professionals, victim advocates, law enforcement officials,
				polygraph examiners and others.
c)
				In many jurisdictions, collaboration occurs through multidisciplinary case
				management teams, the composition of which may vary depending on the risk,
				needs and circumstances of a given client. Key elements of effective
				collaboration include a clear delineation of roles and responsibilities,
				complementary policies and procedures, ethically sound communication and
				information-sharing mechanisms, and a shared community safety goal. Through
				effective partnerships, early intervention can be exercised to reduce the risk
				posed by sexual abusers prior to behaviors that are not yet criminal in nature
				and to facilitate the exchange of information to develop appropriate treatment
				plans, inform risk management decisions, make recommendations regarding victim
				contact, and increase the overall stability and success of clients in the
				community.
d) In cases in which a
				client will be released from a correctional, inpatient or other institutional
				setting, the transition to the community is likely to be more successful when
				collaboration exists among professionals with case management responsibilities
				in the facility and in the community. Transition and reentry planning should be
				initiated well in advance of the client's release in order to identify any
				current and ongoing intervention needs, promote continuity of care, explore and
				begin to address potential barriers to reentry in the community (e.g., housing
				or employment challenges), clarify any post release conditions and
				expectations, and facilitate access to community resources and services, which
				may include community-based sexual abuser-specific treatment.
e) Research on correctional populations,
				including sexual abusers, demonstrates that interventions are most effective
				when guided by evidence-based principles of correctional intervention (i.e.,
				risk, need and responsivity). Therefore, community-based risk reduction and
				risk management strategies involving sexual abusers are ideally matched
				accordingly and may change over time, based on current and empirically informed
				assessment information. Although higher risk/higher need clients may require
				supervision, monitoring and treatment of greater intensity and dosage, less
				intensive supervision and other risk management and risk reduction strategies
				may be more effective and sufficiently adequate for sexual abusers with lower
				recidivism risk, fewer intervention needs and greater protective
				factors.
f) Overarching Risk
				Reduction and Risk Management Considerations
1) Treatment providers recognize that the
				community management of sexual abusers generally involves a variety of
				interventions, strategies and mechanisms.
2) Treatment providers appreciate that sex
				offender-specific public policies and practices have varied goals (e.g.,
				deterrence, retribution, risk management, risk reduction, prevention) and may
				reflect different interests and priorities for stakeholders. Some may
				complement sexual abuser-specific treatment, other risk-reducing interventions
				and prevention strategies; others may not.
3) Treatment providers recognize that some
				interventions and strategies used to promote risk management and risk reduction
				with clients have more empirical support than others.
4) Treatment providers remain apprised of the
				current research pertaining to the impact and effectiveness of various risk
				management and risk reduction policies and strategies utilized with clients in
				the community.
5) Treatment
				providers are encouraged to work with researchers to assess the impact and
				effectiveness of community-based risk management and risk reduction strategies
				utilized with clients.
6) Treatment
				providers play a role in educating stakeholders regarding the current empirical
				support for various strategies and encourage the use of research-supported
				principles and practices to promote effective risk reduction and risk
				management with clients in the community.
7) Treatment providers appreciate that the
				application of empirically informed assessments of risk and need can enhance
				the potential effectiveness of risk management and risk reduction strategies
				for sexual abusers in the community and support the use of those assessments
				system-wide.
8) Treatment providers
				strive to ensure that collaborative partners and other stakeholders have access
				to current, empirically informed assessments to guide decision making regarding
				risk management and risk reduction of sexual abusers in the
				community.