Static Risk Factors are best described as:

• A. They can be changed with rehabilitation
• B. They measure current mood
• C. They relate to future employment
• D. They cannot be changed over time

Answer: (D)

Static risk factors are characteristics tied to a person’s history that do not change over time. Because they reflect past events or fixed attributes, rehabilitation or treatment cannot alter them. They help establish a baseline level of risk and inform decisions about supervision or custody, but they don’t respond to intervention. Dynamic risk factors, in contrast, are attributes that can change and are the ones targeted by rehabilitation programs (for example, substance use, housing stability, or employment prospects). Examples of static factors include things like age at first offense or prior criminal history. The other options describe factors that can change or are not themselves fixed risk indicators, so they aren’t descriptions of static risk factors.