FMH PDP - Risk Assessment Workshops 2025 | CPORT
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Over the last quarter of a century there has been the emergence of and a significant rise in the accessing, producing and sharing of CSAM online. Questions arise when people are apprehended, charged, convicted, or subsequently treated and managed, about the risk posed of further sexual offending, including further CSAM offending, or other child sexual abuse offences, including contact offending. Over the last decade there has been a substantial increase in our knowledge and understanding of CSAM offending and its perpetrators, including recidivism outcomes and risk factors. This has raised some questions and concerns about the applicability of sexual offending risk assessment instruments to CSAM cases.
The Child Pornography Offence Risk Tool (CPORT), now in its third version, is a seven-item actuarial risk assessment instrument specifically developed for and validated in people with CSAM offending. It has demonstrated reliability and predictive validity in research across several jurisdictions over the last decade, and at present in practice it is arguable that it should be used when assessing CSAM cases. This workshop will provide an overview of the latest research and practice literature on CSAM offending, including a detailed up-to-date review of what is known about recidivism, risk factors and the applicability of risk assessment instruments. Participants will be trained in administering and interpreting the CPORT as part of a comprehensive risk assessment approach, including working through case studies. There will also be an opportunity to discuss the use of the CPORT in different applied contexts, including clinical and legal ones.
The CPORT manual will be provided to participants before the workshop. This training will be delivered online, and a certificate of attendance will be provided at the conclusion.
The Forensic Mental Health Professional Development Program Risk Assessment Workshops are delivered through the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science. Learn more about the centre here.
Presenters
Dr Rajan Darjee - Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
Dr Rajan Darjee is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Clinical Director (Psychiatry) of Forensic Behavioural Assessment and Consultation Services (FBACS), and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology. He trained and worked in forensic psychiatry in Scotland for twenty years before moving to Australia, where he initially worked at the Forensicare Problem Behaviour Program, before a role as Deputy Statewide Speciality Director of the Forensic Mental Health Service in Tasmania.
In Scotland he was the first mental health professional to be a Board Member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), he was the National Clinical Lead for Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) and Sexual Offending, and he was the first expert accredited by the Risk Management Authority (RMA) to assess risk in serious violent and sexual offenders being considered for indeterminate sentencing in the High Court of Justiciary. He has extensive experience assessing and treating people who have committed violence, homicide, and/or sexual abuse, and people with mental illnesses, personality disorders, developmental disorders and/or paraphilic disorders in criminal justice, clinical and legal settings. This includes assessments of people who have committed serious sexual and violent offences for post-sentence supervision and detention across multiple Australian jurisdictions. His current research is on sexual homicide, online child sexual abuse, and atypical homicide. He has written over 90 academic publications, including chapters in recent/forthcoming international textbooks on sexual homicide, online child sexual abuse, the problem behaviour model, pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders, sexual sadism, paedophilia, multi-agency management of high risk sexual and violent offenders, and serial murder. He is co-author of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol - Version 2 (RSVP-V2). He has been training professionals in using Structured Professional Judgement (SPJ) approaches to risk assessment and management for over 15 years.
Dr Michael Davis - Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
Dr Michael R Davis is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in full-time private practice. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with the Department of Psychiatry at Monash University, and an Honorary Fellow with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne (Australia).
Dr Davis is a Consultant to the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) and a Senior Consultant to the Children’s Court Clinic (Victoria). He was previously the National Chair of the College of Forensic Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society. Dr Davis’ consulting practice is divided between forensic assessment tasks (particularly the assessment of risk, sexual deviance, and personality disorder) and providing behavioural investigative advice to police agencies. He has completed hundreds of risk assessments for the courts, government departments, and prosecution and defence lawyers over the course of two decades of practice. Dr Davis has consulted with police in several countries across three continents and is the only mental health professional in Australia to be elected to membership of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship (ICIAF). He also serves as an Instructor to the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI and is co-author of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol - Version 2 (RSVP-V2).
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