Criminal risk assessment refers to the process of predicting an individual’s risk of future criminal activity. The purposes of criminal risk assessment [Page 284]are to identify those individuals at higher risk of future offending and inform interventions designed to reduce an individual’s risk of future offending. Risk assessment is utilized in a variety of contexts, both criminal and noncriminal. In criminal contexts, criminal risk assessment is used to inform legal and correctional decisions across the criminal justice spectrum, including during pretrial detention/bail, juvenile transfer, and sentencing (state, federal, and capital); determining security levels for prisoners; determining appropriate probation/parole supervision conditions; and reentry planning. In noncriminal (civil) settings, risk assessments are used to predict an individual’s potential for violence in the workplace, determine whether a sex ...