The risk of serious harm – is the probability that a future offence will be one of “serious harm”. The OASys risk assessment tool defines “serious harm” as: “an event which is life threatening and/or traumatic and from which recovery, whether physical or psychological, can be expected to be “difficult or impossible”.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING DO YOU CONSIDER TO BE CAUSES OF SERIOUS HARM?

Murder

Manslaughter

Serious individual harm

Rape

Treason

Substantial financial loss or gain

Child Abuse

Harm to security of the state

Kidnapping

In fact, all of the criminal offences mentioned above are deemed to cause serious harm to those involved and are reasons to break confidentiality.