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Risk Assessment
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Risk Assessment

Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Christopher King and Sarah Filone
Evaluating Juvenile Transfer and Disposition
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315661445-5

Abstract

Adolescent Antisocial Behavior SPJ Measure Specialized Risk Measures Behavioral Health Symptoms Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care Risk Assessment Measures Juvenile Risk Assessment Static Risk Factors Risk Assessment Instruments Forensic Mental Health Assessment Juvenile Risk Juvenile Probation Services Actuarial Assessment Causal Risk Factors Antisocial Behavior Adolescent Onset Antisocial Behavior Risk Assessment Sexual Offending Behavioral Health Problems Disposition Decisions Van Der Put Dynamic Risk Factors General Offending Risk Relevant Information Incremental Validity
This chapter focuses on risk assessment, addressing recidivism risk-one of the recurring criteria applicable to both transfer and disposition decisions. It then describes the relevant research on juvenile risk assessment, after identifying important conceptual considerations (e.g. risk of what, over what period). The chapter considers specialized measures of such risk, and makes recommendations for their use in light of the applicable research. Much of the value of risk assessment is drawn from the information that is considered, and the way in which this information is combined and interpreted. Risk assessment begins with questions that provide structure to this effort and make the results more meaningful. The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model is the leading contemporary theory involving the application of behavioral science to correctional classification and rehabilitation. Research on factors associated with general, violent, and sexual offending among youth has yielded much information about the persistence of such offending.

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