Rajan Darjee
Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol - Version 2 (RSVP-V2)
Workshop Abstract
The Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol-Version 2 (RSVP-V2), published in 2022, is the latest version of structured professional judgment (SPJ) guidelines for assessing and managing risk of sexual violence, that started with the Sexual Violence Risk-20 (SVR-20) in 1997 and the original RSVP in 2003.
It is a sister tool to the HCR-20 v3 used in violence risk assessment and management contexts internationally. The RSVP-V2 is used internationally in criminal justice, forensic mental health and legal contexts. In this session one of the co-authors of the RSVP-V2 will cover the following three areas:
1. The development of the RSVP-V2, comparison with other risk instruments, cases where the RSVP-V2 may have utility.
2. The international research evidence base for the reliability, validity (including predictive validity) and utility of the RSVP-V2. This will include findings from five studies of the predictive validity of the RSVP from North America, the UK, Europe and Australia.
3. Using the RSVP-V2 in practice. Three case studies will be used to illustrate the utility of the RSVP-V2 in legal, criminal justice and forensic mental health contexts.
About the Speaker
Dr Rajan Darjee is a forensic psychiatrist who has worked in the Scotland and Australia and is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where he is the Clinical Director of Forensic Behavioural Assessment and Consultation Services (FBACS) and adjunct associate professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (CFBS), Swinburne University of Technology.
He has extensive experience of assessing, treating, managing and consulting on people who have committed sexual abuse. He has authored over a hundred academic publications, is co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Homicide Studies and is co-author of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol-Version 2 (RSVP-V2). His current research is on sexual homicide, online child sexual abuse, and psychosis and homicide. He was previously the Chair of NOTA Scotland.