Risk assessment is a complex process that involves clinical analysis, actuarial data, and professional judgment. Risk assessment is a critical part of the justice system as it affects policing strategy, correctional planning, and bail and release.
You are a civilian member in the Domestic Violence Unit of a police agency for which you provide administrative and operational support to assist front line officers in their investigation of domestic violence matters. One role you have is to assist police officers in completing a risk assessment tool to buttress any Bail Hearing (Show Cause) conditions that may include recommendations to a Judge opposing bail to the accused alleged to have committed a violent act against anyone. The police officer has decided that a Bail Hearing (Show Cause) is the appropriate direction to take with this matter and provided an outline of the situation under investigation. Read the various sources of information provided by the police officer and provide a risk assessment analysis using the ODARA risk assessment instrument (see attached documents)
Your scoring for this risk assessment instrument must be sourced by sufficient case-specific evidence (using a separate page) to justify the rating you are assigning on any individual factor (especially if your score is a yes). After you have completed your analysis of risk, you are to provide a separate summary report noting the risk level posed by Mr. Stack using the ODARA instrument.
In summary, you are to provide an Analysis of Risk that the officer may use to substantiate a recommendation of BAIL OPPOSED or BAIL WITH/WITHOUT CONDITIONS for Robert Stack.
Please attach a completed ODARA with your report. You can find an online copy of the ODARA on the following link:
https://www.knfp.ch/en/risk-assessment-tools/odara.
