Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG)

The Sex Offender Risk Appraisal Guide (SORAG) is a 14-item actuarial scale designed to predict violent, including hands-on, sexual recidivism among men who have committed at least one previous hands-on sexual offense.

The items on the scale are the following:

• 1.
  Lived with both biological parents until age 16
• 2.
  Elementary school maladjustment
• 3.
  History of alcohol problems
• 4.
  Never been married at time of index offense
• 5.
  Criminal history score for nonviolent offenses
• 6.
  Criminal history score for violent offenses
• 7.
  Number of convictions for previous sexual offenses
• 8.
  History of sexual offenses only against girls below 14 years of age (negatively scored)
• 9.
  Failure on prior conditional release
• 10.
  Age at index offense (negatively scored)
• 11.
  Diagnosis of any personality disorder
• 12.
  Diagnosis of schizophrenia (negatively scored)
• 13.
  Phallometric test results indicating deviant sexual interests
• 14.
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