Parameters for Cases Accepted or Rejected for Collaborative Court
| Case Characteristics for Acceptance | Case Characteristics for Rejection |
|---|---|
| One child or adult victim for qualifying offense where sexual conduct is not substantial | Multiple child or adult victims with substantial sexual conduct; sexually sadistic crimes against adult or child victims |
| Sexual history does not suggest preferential pedophilic or paraphilic interests | Sexual history suggests entrenched, preferential sexual interest in children or sadistic or coercive contact with adults |
| Victim selection is not clearly predatory (e.g., intrafamilial offending) | Victim selection: |
| Clear predatory pattern: targeting strangers, kidnap or abduction involved | |
| Targets particularly vulnerable victims: elderly, toddlers/infants (neophilia), or persons with disabilities | |
| Age is a mitigator: | Age is not a mitigator: |
| Older offender (over 60) with long-term incarceration whose qualifying offense occurred ≥ 15 years prior to sexually violent predator petition | Older offender (over 60) with last sexual offense occurring in an older age bracket |
| Offender is young (e.g., 20s) with sex offenses occurring at age 18 and only nonqualifying priors as an adolescent | Young offender (e.g., 20s) with a pattern of adolescent and early adulthood qualifying prior sexual offenses; trajectory of victim choice suggests sexual deviance |
| Motivation for treatment with evidence of participation in sex offender treatment in custody or self-help participation in management of coping skills to address anger, depression, or substance use | Little or no evidence of positive programing in custody; poor impulse control in custodial setting, such as drug use, sexual acting out, or violence toward others |
| Sex offending occurred under intoxication, has engaged with in-custody substance-abuse treatment | Sex offending occurred under intoxication and with evidence of in-custody use of substances |
| Protective factors of prior prosocial functioning: good employment, has social and financial supports | Protective factors absent; history of antisocial functioning, poor employment, negative influences as social support (e.g., gang), no financial support |
| Sex offending was situationally based, related to youth gang affiliation with no current history of such affiliation | Offense analog behaviors, such as habitual involvement in sexually deviant activities in custody (e.g., coercive sexual contact, child materials or pictures, stalking staff for sexual contact) or distributes or makes sexually explicit drawings, narratives, or photos |
| Offender special characteristics: | Offender special characteristics: |
| Developmentally delayed, receiving government support, or offenses indicative of emotional identification rather than sexual interest in children | Lack of compliance with authority in custody setting; multiple rules violations with anger or aggression indicative of a pattern of defiance toward authority |
| Medical conditions that limit mobility or create short life expectancy | Medical conditions that do not limit mobility or, if they do, offender has previously sexually acted out despite conditions |
| Offense characteristics or history: | Offense characteristics or history: |
| Offender's current offense is not sexual; offender has been in community for extended period without sexual offending | History of new sex crimes committed while on parole |
| Sexual offense is remote | Sexual offense pattern reflects trajectory of increasing sexual aggression and predatory behavior |
| History of one adult or child qualifying victim with more recent history of noncontact sexual offenses | Offender has wide range of victims (e.g., adults and children, males and females) and broad sexual deviance |