The case applies the established framework under the Dangerous Sexual Offenders Act 2006 (WA) to an offender with three serious sexual offences, chronic substance abuse, and failure to engage in rehabilitation. The court accepted that standard actuarial risk assessment tools (STATIC-99, RSVP) have limited predictive validity for Indigenous Australian offenders, but held that the overall assessment of risk — informed by pattern of offending, psychiatric evidence, and common human experience — supported a finding of unacceptable risk to a high degree of probability. The court emphasised that risk of recidivism should not be expressed in precise mathematical terms. The case also highlights the practical difficulties of supervising offenders in remote Aboriginal communities.
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