At the preliminary hearing stage under the Crimes (High Risk Offenders) Act 2006 (NSW), a single conviction for serious violence may be sufficient to establish unacceptable risk where the offender has escalating offending, entrenched substance abuse, high-risk classification on validated assessment tools, and pending serious charges taken at their highest.
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