An area of much public concern is the management of persons suffering from paraphilias, especially pedophilia.
This would exempt actions “conducted to fulfill a department or agency’s legal mandate to ensure the safety and protection of the United States, its people, and its national security interests.”
=The controversy in this respect centres around whether static risk factors (also called actuarialor statistical) are as good as, or better than clinical factors (also called dynamic) for the prediction of dangerousness (i.e. are technicians as good or better than clinicians). It is not uncommon nowadays to hear forensic psychiatrists explaining that an offender has a probability of, say, 70 or 90% of reoffending violently, based on the probabilities worked out through the help of any of the scales produced to predict violent behaviour. The way the science of prediction is moving, it would not be too far from the predictions of the infamous Texan Dr. Grigson, also known as Dr. Death, a forensic psychiatrist that used to go to courts to pronounce that he was 100% certain that an offender (whom sometimes he would not have examined or examined only for a few minutes) will commit homicide again
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