Rationale
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. Civilian members of policing forces are often responsible for contributing to risk assessment reports. In this assignment, you will create a risk assessment report based on a number of original documents and your own completion of the ODARA tool. Please note that this scenario is comprised of a fictional storyline. Other than the police officer and City of Orillia all other characters, times, dates and circumstances were imagined. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental.
Assignment
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.
Sample Solution
