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28 CFR 549.95: Determining “serious difficulty in refraining from sexually violent conduct or child molestation if released.”

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  1. Title 28—Judicial Administration
  2. CHAPTER V—BUREAU OF PRISONS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
  3. SUBCHAPTER C—INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT
  4. PART 549—MEDICAL SERVICES
  5. Subpart H—Civil Commitment of a Sexually Dangerous Person

In determining whether a person will have “serious difficulty in refraining from sexually violent conduct or child molestation if released,” Bureau mental health professionals may consider, but are not limited to, evidence:

(a) Of the person's repeated contact, or attempted contact, with one or more victims of sexually violent conduct or child molestation;

(b) Of the person's denial of or inability to appreciate the wrongfulness, harmfulness, or likely consequences of engaging or attempting to engage in sexually violent conduct or child molestation;

(c) Established through interviewing and testing of the person or through other risk assessment tools that are relied upon by mental health professionals;

(d) Established by forensic indicators of inability to control conduct, such as:

(1) Offending while under supervision;

(2) Engaging in offense(s) when likely to get caught;

(3) Statement(s) of intent to re-offend; or

(4) Admission of inability to control behavior; or

(e) Indicating successful completion of, or failure to successfully complete, a sex offender treatment program.

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