SPJ Framework
The Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ) framework represents a contemporary approach to forensic risk assessment that synthesizes clinical judgment with empirical evidence of risk factors. Rather than producing a numerical score, SPJ guides clinicians through systematic evaluation of case-specific evidence to arrive at a structured, transparent categorical risk judgment. SPJ has become the preferred methodology in many forensic settings globally and underlies instruments such as the HCR-20v3 (violence risk) and sexual offender assessment protocols.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Hart, S. D., Kropp, P. R., & Laws, D. R. (Eds.). (2003). Sexual deviance: Theory, assessment, and treatment. Guilford Press. · URL
- Kropp, P. R., Hart, S. D., & Belfrage, H. (2008). Structured professional judgment as an approach to violence risk assessment. In K. A. Van den Berg, P. T. Mason, & B. K. Waller (Eds.), Risk assessment and management of violent offenders (pp. 85–109). Springer. · URL
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.