ABSTRACT

Instruments designed to appraise the risk of young people acting violently are sometimes used to measure changes in risk over the course of treatment. This study examined measurement error, reliable change and the relationship between change and recidivism of three youth violence assessment instruments, the SAVRY, VRS-YV and SAPROF-YV. Each instrument was retrospectively rated from file data pertaining to the pre- and post-treatment assessments of 90 male adolescents who completed a violent offender treatment program. Group-level changes were observed for the total scores of all three tools, with the scores on the SAVRY showing the most reliable change. However, change scores derived from the three instruments was unrelated to reoffending. Further research is needed to better understand the relationship between change scores on these multi-item risk assessment measures and recidivism.

摘要

旨在评估年轻人暴力行为风险的工具有时用于衡量治疗过程中风险的变化。本研究检验了三种青少年暴力评估工具 SAVRY、VRS-YV 和 SAPROF-YV 的测量误差、可靠变化以及变化与再犯之间的关系。每个工具都根据与完成暴力罪犯治疗计划的 90 名男性青少年的治疗前和治疗后评估有关的文件数据进行回顾性评级。观察到所有三个工具的总分的组级变化，其中 SAVRY 上的分数显示出最可靠的变化。然而，从这三种工具得出的变化分数与再犯罪无关。