Importantly, the Act does not specify that such clinicians must be forensic experts, and suggests a risk assessment may still be made even if the offender does not cooperate fully (or at all) in the examination process.Section 8 outlines what these assessment reports must entail: (a) whether the 'offender has a propensity to commit relevant offences in the future'; (b) their 'pattern and progression' of sexual offending, and the 'nature of any likely future sexual… [read post]