STABLE-2007 and ACUTE-2007 Instruments
The STABLE-2007 and ACUTE-2007 are tools designed to track changeable factors related to sexual reoffending risk, complementing assessments based on historical factors that do not change. The article distinguishes longer-term stable factors such as relationship skills and self-regulation from short-term acute conditions such as victim access, hostility, emotional collapse, and substance abuse, and describes their use in community supervision and intervention planning.