Static-2002 coding rules (2009) - Static-99

Demographic Information
For the first item, “Age at Release,” the offender’s date of birth is required in
order to determine the offender’s age at release or at time of exposure to risk in
the community.
Official Criminal Record
In order to score Static-2002, the evaluator must have access to an official
criminal record as recorded by police or other law enforcement agency, court, or
correctional officials. This official criminal record is used to score nine items on
Static-2002 including: “Prior Sentencing Occasions for Sexual Offences,” “Any
Juvenile Arrest for a Sexual Offence,” “Rate of Sexual Offending,” “Any
Sentencing Occasions for Non-Contact Sex Offences,” “Any Prior Involvement
with the Criminal Justice System,” “Prior Sentencing Occasions for Anything,”
“Any Community Supervision Violation,” “Years Free Prior to Index,” and “Any
Prior Non-Sexual Violent Sentencing Occasions.”
Self-report is not acceptable to score these nine items except in rare
circumstances, such as cases involving immigrants, refugees from third world
countries, etc. In cases such as these, self-report of crimes may be used if it is
reasonable to assume that no records exist or that existing records are truly
irretrievable. In addition, the evaluator must find the self-reported information
credible. For example, reports increase in credibility when it is consistent with his
current sexual misbehaviour.
Although self-report (and any additional credible information) cannot be used to
substitute official criminal records, it can be used to supplement official records.
Specifically, official records are required to establish the existence of prior
charges and sentencing occasions, but any credible information can be used to
determine the nature of the offences (e.g., sexual motivation). For example, if the
offender has a prior conviction for Trespassing at Night and the police report
does not include any additional details, but the offender confesses that he was
engaging in voyeurism, this self-report information can be used to classify the
incident as a sexual offence. The exception to this is that self-report information
derived initially from a polygraph is not counted, even if the offender repeats that
information later during treatment (see page 6 for further explanation).
In some cases, evaluators may have official criminal records but they are
incomplete and therefore not sufficient to establish a sentencing occasion. This
may occur if the record displays a charge for an offence but is missing
information on the outcome of the charge (i.e., conviction/acquittal/dismissal) or if
the record indicates that there are youth convictions but does not specify what
the convictions are for. In other circumstances, events which may constitute a
sentencing occasion (e.g., for priests, military, etc.) may not necessarily appear
on the criminal record. In these situations, credible self-report or additional
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