Term | Explanation |
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Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland ( ACPOS) | This body represents senior police officers from across Scotland and contributes to policing strategy in Scotland and working with other bodies in policy formulation. Its membership comprises all chief police officers and senior police staff of the eight Scottish police forces, the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency, the Scottish Police College and the Assistant Chief Constable of the British Transport Police (Scotland) |
High risk of serious harm | A risk of harmful behaviour which is life threatening and/or traumatic and from which the victim's recovery, whether physical or psychological, can be expected to be difficult or impossible.
Offender Assessment System Manual (Home Office, 2002) |
Integrated Case Management ( ICM) | ICM is a multi-agency approach to planning and managing a prisoner's sentence, including preparation for release. Main agency participants, in addition to the prisoner him/herself are SPS personal officers and ICM co-ordinators, prison-based and community-based social workers, police offender management officers and also community housing staff, voluntary sector support services and health service staff where appropriate (e.g. in connection with mental or physical health factors, including addictions). |
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements ( MAPPA) | Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements ( MAPPA) is the system that enables responsible agencies (police, social work and prisons and NHS Scotland) and a range of other agencies with a duty to co-operate to manage sex offenders in the community. There is a future policy intention to include relevant violent offenders within the provisions of MAPPA. |
Non-parole | The non-discretionary early release of an offender with a determinate sentence of four years or more (not a life prisoner) that occurs at around two-thirds of the term of the original sentence. Prisoners on non-parole release are subject to a licence to which the Parole Board will attach conditions. |
Parole | The process of discretionary early release for a prisoner sentenced to four or more years in custody. Prisoners become eligible for parole at the halfway point of their sentence. The decision to release or not is with the Parole Board for Scotland. See non-parole. |
Prisoner Records 2 ( PR2) | Prisoner Records 2 ( PR2) is the computerised prisoner record system operating solely within the Scottish Prison Service. The system is a daily record when a prisoner is in custody to ensure an accurate picture of custodial status. It contains ICM data and a range of agencies in the prison, including social work, may use it. |
Programme | This usually refers to a sequence of group meetings in which facilitators attempt to help offenders acquire better thinking and reasoning skills that they can use in future to help them avoid offending. |
Risk | The probability of a future negative or harmful event. The risk that the event will occur/recur and the risk that the event will be negative or harmful. Both of those risks are of concern to services seeking to manage risk in the interests of public safety. |
Risk assessment | Risk assessment is a means of quantifying the probability that an event will occur/recur, or that an event that does occur will be harmful. |
Risk Assessment 3 ( RA3) | Screening tool for risk of harm (see table on page 8). |
Risk Assessment 4 ( RA4) | Detailed structure for risk of harm assessment (see table on page 8). |
Risk Management Authority ( RMA) | The national body that sets the standards and guidelines for risk assessments leading to the Order for Lifelong Restriction. Also sets the standards and guidelines for the management of such offenders. Has a general role to promulgate effective risk assessment and management. |
RM2000 | A risk assessment tool that predicts reconviction for a sexual offence within a defined period using information about the offender rather than clinical assessment (see table on page 8). |
SA07 | A risk assessment tool that predicts reconviction for a sexual offence, helps monitor factors underpinning acute escalation of risk and provides a breakdown of areas of need that may be treatment targets (see table on page 8). |
Schedule 1 Offenders | Offenders convicted of specified offences against children (specified in Schedule 1 of the Criminal Procedure [Scotland] Act 1995). These are primarily offences comprising neglect or physical, sexual, or emotional harm towards children. The categorisation is life-long. |
Sex Offender Treatment Programme | The standard SPS prison based programme to address the offending behaviour of sex offenders. An abbreviated version of the full programme is available for those serving shorter sentences. |
The Association of Directors of Social Work | The national organisation that represents senior managers of social work services in Scotland, and which co-ordinates much policy contribution of the profession to Scottish Government policy. |
The Parole Board | The Parole Board decides on the release of people on Parole and attaches conditions to parole licences and non-parole licences. Comprises a range of professional and lay members. |
The Scottish Prison Service | The national body accountable to Scottish Ministers that directly provides custodial services across the country and oversees Scotland's two private prisons. |
ViSOR | An electronic database accessible to police, social work services and prisons that, in Scotland, records relevant risk management information about sex offenders, including risk assessment data. Supports information sharing between agencies. |