Indigenous people and the courts have emphasized that it is important to examine whether scores from violence risk assessment tools are valid and appropriate for Indigenous youth. However, studies are scarce. Therefore, we examined the predictive validity of youth probation officers' Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) ratings for 744 Canadian youth, including 299 Indigenous youth (219 male, 80 female), and 445 Caucasian youth (357 male, 88 female) in a prospective field study. The SAVRY summary risk ratings and risk total scores significantly predicted violent and any reoffending for Indigenous female and male youth with medium effect sizes. Relatively few significant differences in the predictive validity emerged for Indigenous and Caucasian youth. However, Historical, Protective, and Risk Total scores predicted any recidivism better for Caucasian males than Indigenous males. Also, Indigenous youth scored significantly higher on all risk domains than Caucasian youth. Opposite to predictions, the rates of false positives were higher for Caucasian youth than for Indigenous youth. Based on the results, the SAVRY appears to be a reasonable tool to use for assessing risk in Indigenous youth. However, assessors should take steps to ensure that they use the SAVRY in a culturally appropriate manner, such as considering cultural factors in case formulations and treatment planning as the SAVRY does not ground assessments in an understanding of factors such as colonialism. In addition, future research should examine culturally salient risk factors (e.g., discrimination) and examine potential causes of higher risk scores in Indigenous youth, particularly the role of both past and present-day colonialism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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对土著和白人女性和男性青少年的试用期进行的青年暴力风险结构评估（SAVRY）的预测有效性。

土著人民和法院强调，重要的是要检查暴力风险评估工具中的分数是否对土著青年有效和适当。但是，研究很少。因此，我们针对744名加拿大青年（包括299名土著青年（219名男性，女性80名）和445名白种人青年（357名男性，女性88名））对青年缓刑官进行的青少年暴力风险结构评估（SAVRY）评分的预测有效性进行了研究。 ）进行前瞻性实地研究。SAVRY摘要风险等级和风险总分显着预测了中度影响力的土著女性和男性青年的暴力行为和任何再犯罪行为。土著和高加索青年在预测效度方面相对较少。但是，历史，保护，和Risk Total得分预测，白人男性比土著男性更容易再犯。同样，在所有危险领域中，土著青年的得分均显着高于白人青年。与预测相反，白人青年的假阳性率高于土著青年。根据结果​​，SAVRY似乎是评估土著青年风险的合理工具。但是，评估人员应采取措施确保他们以文化上适当的方式使用SAVRY，例如在病例表述和治疗计划中考虑文化因素，因为SAVRY不会以理解殖民主义等因素为基础进行评估。此外，未来的研究应检查文化上显着的风险因素（例如，歧视），并检查土著青年中较高风险分数的潜在原因，尤其是过去和现在殖民主义的作用。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。