SOP_NUMBER: 213.11-att-2
TITLE: Severity of Offense Scale
REFERENCE_CODE: IIE05-0001
DIVISION: Facilities
TOPIC_AREA: 213 Policy-Probation Detention Center
EFFECTIVE_DATE: 2020-03-09
WORD_COUNT: 243
POWERDMS_URL: https://public.powerdms.com/GADOC/documents/106096
URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/213.11-att-2/

SUMMARY:
This attachment provides a severity classification scale for offenses in probation detention centers, categorizing crimes into five levels from Greatest to Lowest severity. The scale is used to assess and classify inmates based on the nature and sentence length of their offenses, helping staff determine appropriate security levels, housing assignments, and facility management decisions.

KEY_TOPICS: offense classification, severity scale, greatest severity offenses, high severity crimes, moderate severity offenses, low moderate offenses, lowest severity offenses, assaultive offenses, sex offenses, felony classification, detention center security, inmate classification, crime severity levels, violent offenses, property crimes, drug offenses

ATTACHMENTS:
  1. Supervision Assessment
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/213.11-att-1/
  2. Severity of Offense Scale
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/213.11-att-2/
  3. Recommendation for Supervision Level Change
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/213.11-att-3/
  4. Detainee Classification Appeal Form
     URL: https://gps.press/sop-data/213.11-att-4/

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SOP 213.11
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**SEVERITY OF OFFENSE SCALE**


**A.** **GREATEST**
**1. Murder***
**2. Rape***
**3. Armed robbery***
**4. Assault, Aggravated***
**5. Aggravated sodomy***
**6. Kidnapping for ransom or bodily harm***
**7. Child molestation, Aggravated***
**8. Voluntary manslaughter***
**9. Aggravated battery***
**10. Escape from prison, detention center, jail**
**11. Aggravated Sexual Battery***

**B.** **HIGH**
**1.** **Arson, Attempted Murder***
**2.** **Explosives, possession or transportation**
**3.** **Robbery by intimidation**
**4.** **Sex offenses, other than forcible**
**5.** **Assaults, general***
**6.** **Cruelty to children***
**7.** **Kidnapping**
**8.** **Terroristic threat**
**9.** **Manslaughter, involuntary**
**10.** **Vehicular Homicide***
**11.** **Aggravated Stalking***

**C.** **MODERATE**
**1.** **Drugs, sentence of five years or higher**
**Property crimes with sentence of five years or higher to include:**
**2.** **Burglary, theft**
**3.** **Credit card fraud**
**4.** **Criminal damage to property with life in danger**
**5.** **Forgery, over 10 counts**
**6.** **Fraud and embezzlement**
**7.** **Theft of a motor vehicle**
**8.** **Bribery**
**9.** **Simple assault, or battery***
**10.** **Firearms violations, possession of a deadly weapon**
**11.** **Arson, Related cases**
**12.** **Escape from diversion or transitional center.**

**D.** **LOW MODERATE**
**1.** **Drugs, sentence of less than five years**
**2.** **Property offenses with sentence less than five years**
**3.** **Soliciting for sexual activity (prostitution, pandering)**


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SOP 213.11
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**E.** **LOWEST**
**1.** **Misdemeanor, excluding assaultive and sex-related**
**2.** **DUI's**
**3.** **Drivers license violations**
**4.** **Possession of tools to commit a crime**
**5.** **Habitual violator**
**6.** **Forgery, under ten counts**
**7.** **Credit card theft**
**8.** **VGCSA, possession, single offense, sentence one year or less**
**9.** **Property offenses, sentence of two years or less**

***** _**Denotes Assaultive Offenses**_


Retention Schedule: This attachment will be kept locally until it is obsolete or replaced, then destroyed.