Psychological Analysis
Reading the facts of Respondent Hansen’s case led me to believe that he suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder. The mental disorder that would best describe Respondent Hansen’s case is pedophilic disorder.
The symptoms that are generally associated with this diagnosis, pedophilic disorder, is that the defendant, in this case, Respondent Hansen, would need to have intense, recurrent, and occurring sexually arousing urges, behaviors, or fantasies that is involved with a prepubescent child, usually 13 years of age or younger as stated in the DSM-5 (Scurich, Lecture 7). Notably, these need to last for at least 6 months. Furthermore, as stated in Berlin’s (2014) article, the DSM-5 enlightens us that in order for an individual …show more content…
Static-99 is an actuarial (statistical) tool, which is frequently used in Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) commitment proceedings. The actuarial tools have been developed by researchers in order to evaluate the risk of sexual re-offence of an individual. Yet, these tools depend on risk factors with an empirically accepted relation to sexual offending, like age when released, relationship to prior victims as well earlier association with the criminal justice system. The Static-99 utilizes 10 risk factors, stated below (Huss, 2014, p. 130), which are scored by the examiner of whether the variable is present. Then the 10 variables scores are summed and the summed up scores leads to the classification of the defendant’s risk category, which are either low, low-moderate, moderate-high, or …show more content…
The first step is at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. So, if one is convicted of a sex offense that person is sent to prison, which is the case of Respondent Hansen. Yet, when one is near the end of their prison term, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation looks at Respondent Hansen’s rap sheet, what he is there for and then sends the case to the Board of Parole Hearings. The Board of Parole Hearings looks at the files and asks about the offense and if Respondent Hansen looks dangerous, they then send the case over to the Department of Mental Health (Scurich, Lecture 7). Consequently, California’s Department of Mental Health then does an administrative review, meaning they give two people the case files to determine if Respondent Hansen would meet the criteria for an SVP in California. If they agree that Respondent Hansen meets the criteria, they would then take it back to the original county in which Respondent Hansen was prosecuted at. The county in which he was prosecuted at is Los Angeles County. Afterwards, the District Attorney decides whether or not it is worth to file a petition to try to have Respondent Hansen committed. If the district attorney goes forward with it, then a jury trial would take place (Scurich, Lecture 7). The jury of Respondent Hansen’s county would determine whether or not he meets the definition of a sexually
Reading the facts of Respondent Hansen’s case led me to believe that he suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder. The mental disorder that would best describe Respondent Hansen’s case is pedophilic disorder.
The symptoms that are generally associated with this diagnosis, pedophilic disorder, is that the defendant, in this case, Respondent Hansen, would need to have intense, recurrent, and occurring sexually arousing urges, behaviors, or fantasies that is involved with a prepubescent child, usually 13 years of age or younger as stated in the DSM-5 (Scurich, Lecture 7). Notably, these need to last for at least 6 months. Furthermore, as stated in Berlin’s (2014) article, the DSM-5 enlightens us that in order for an individual …show more content…
Static-99 is an actuarial (statistical) tool, which is frequently used in Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) commitment proceedings. The actuarial tools have been developed by researchers in order to evaluate the risk of sexual re-offence of an individual. Yet, these tools depend on risk factors with an empirically accepted relation to sexual offending, like age when released, relationship to prior victims as well earlier association with the criminal justice system. The Static-99 utilizes 10 risk factors, stated below (Huss, 2014, p. 130), which are scored by the examiner of whether the variable is present. Then the 10 variables scores are summed and the summed up scores leads to the classification of the defendant’s risk category, which are either low, low-moderate, moderate-high, or …show more content…
The first step is at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. So, if one is convicted of a sex offense that person is sent to prison, which is the case of Respondent Hansen. Yet, when one is near the end of their prison term, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation looks at Respondent Hansen’s rap sheet, what he is there for and then sends the case to the Board of Parole Hearings. The Board of Parole Hearings looks at the files and asks about the offense and if Respondent Hansen looks dangerous, they then send the case over to the Department of Mental Health (Scurich, Lecture 7). Consequently, California’s Department of Mental Health then does an administrative review, meaning they give two people the case files to determine if Respondent Hansen would meet the criteria for an SVP in California. If they agree that Respondent Hansen meets the criteria, they would then take it back to the original county in which Respondent Hansen was prosecuted at. The county in which he was prosecuted at is Los Angeles County. Afterwards, the District Attorney decides whether or not it is worth to file a petition to try to have Respondent Hansen committed. If the district attorney goes forward with it, then a jury trial would take place (Scurich, Lecture 7). The jury of Respondent Hansen’s county would determine whether or not he meets the definition of a sexually