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

Category 3: Deviant Sexual Interests
6. Any Male Victim
Background: Having male victims is correlated with measures of sexual
deviance (Freund & Watson, 1991; Seto & Lalumière, 2001) and is empirically
associated with increased risk of sexual recidivism (Hanson & Bussière, 1998).
Information Required to Score this Item: To score this item use all available
credible information. “Credible Information” includes but is not limited to police
reports, child welfare reports, victim impact statements or discussions with
victims, collateral contacts, and offender self-report.
This item is scored based on all available credible information except that
specifically derived from a polygraph interview. The offender need not have been
criminally charged for victims to be counted for this item.
The Basic Rule: If the offender has any male victim of a sexual offence (child or
non-consenting adult victim), score the offender a “1” on this item. If all of the
offender’s victims of sexual offences are female, score the offender a “0” on this
item.
Included in this category are all sexual offences involving a male victim.
Possession of child pornography involving boys, however, does not count.
Exposing to a mixed group of children (girls and boys) does not count unless
there was clear evidence the offender was targeting at least one boy. Contacting
a male victim over the internet does count.
If an offender sexually assaults a transvestite in the mistaken belief that the
victim is a female (may be wearing female clothing), do not score the transvestite
as a male victim. If it is essentially certain the offender knew he was assaulting a
male before the assault, score a male victim.
In some cases a sexual offender may beat-up or contain (lock in a car trunk, tie
to a chair, etc) another male in order to sexually assault the male’s date (wife,
etc.). If the perpetrator simply assaults the male (non-sexual) in order to access
the female you do not count him as a male victim on Static-2002. In order for the
male to count as a victim of a sexual offence, there must be evidence that the
assault/restraint of the male was sexually motivated. For example, if the
perpetrator involves the male in the sexual offence by tying him up and making
him watch a rape (forced witness), there would need to be additional signs of
sexual motivation for the male victim to count, such as self-admitted fantasies,
preparing for forced witnesses as part of offence planning, or statements made to
the forced witness during the offence that suggested a sexual motivation in the
presence of the male witness.
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