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Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual Offense Recidivism  

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  • The Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual Offense Recidivism, abbreviated as the RRASOR (pronounced like the cutting tool), is an actuarial scale designed to assess different levels of sexual recidivism risk for convicted sexual offenders. This scale was the first empirically validated actuarial instrument specifically designed for the assessment of sexual offense recidivism. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Rapid Risk Assessment for Sexual Offense Recidivism (RRASOR)]

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