The use of risk assessment instruments has become standard procedure in the juvenile justice system. Most empirical assessments of the predictive validity of these instruments concentrate on the ability of a total risk score, individual risk factors, or risk domains to predict negative juvenile outcomes but fail to consider the utility of the protective factors in influencing or moderating those risks. This study utilizes the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth to analyze the impact of protective factors on reoffending using a sample (n = 460) of postadjudication juveniles in a southern state. The overall protective domain and two specific protective factors were related to reoffending in bivariate analyses. However, protective factors did not predict reoffending when controlling for risk domains. Rather, further analyses suggest that certain protective factors buffer the effects of some of the risk domains.

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保护因素在青少年暴力风险结构评估的预测准确性中的作用（SAVRY）

风险评估工具的使用已成为少年司法系统的标准程序。这些工具的预测有效性的大多数经验评估都集中于总风险评分，单个风险因素或风险域预测青少年不良结果的能力，但没有考虑保护因素在影响或减轻这些风险中的作用。这项研究利用南部州青少年审判后的样本（n = 460），对青少年的暴力风险进行了结构化评估，以分析保护因素对再犯罪的影响。总体保护域和两个特定保护因子与双变量分析中的再犯罪有关。但是，在控制风险域时，保护因素并不能预测会再次犯罪。而是