Risk and Need Assessment of Juvenile Offenders

Abstract

The validity of a newly developed probation risk and need assessment instrument, the Ministry Risk/Need Assessment Form (MRNAF), was evaluated in a medium-sized Canadian city over-represented by Native Canadians. In the present study, 263 young offenders were assessed on the MRNAF. At 6 months, 250 youths were followed-up to determine if they had offended subsequent to their initial assessment. Results indicated that the total risk/need score and all of the eight risk/need factors could discriminate between recidivists and nonrecidivists. Moreover, despite some differences between Native and non-Native youths and between male and female youths, the ethnicity and sex of young offenders were inconsequential with regards to the instrument's prediction of recidivism. Therefore, the findings support MRNAF as a robust risk/need assessment instrument to ethnicity and sex.

Analysis of Risk and Protective Factors for Recidivism in Spanish Youth Offenders

“…Several studies continue to show the primacy of these eight factors from the Inventory (Andrews, Guzzo, Raynor, Rowe, Rettinger, Brews & Wormith, 2012;Rennie & Dolan, 2010;Flores, Travis & Latessa, 2004). Some of these studies highlight the predictive power of certain factors, such as previous history, drugs and attitudes/orientation (Flores et al, 2004) or education and employment, negative peer relationship and antisocial attitudes (Jung & Rawana, 1999).…”

Estudo normativo da versão Portuguesa do YLS/CMI – Inventário de avaliação do risco de reincidência e de gestão de caso para jovens

“…Bechtel et al, 2007;Flores et al, 2003;Marczyk et al, 2003;Onifade et al, 2008;Schmidt et al, 2005;Vieira et al, 2009;Welsh et al, 2008). Os valores normativos apresentados neste estudo são, assim, similares aos originais (Jung & Rawana, 1999) constantes no manual do YLS/CMI (Hoge, Andrews, & Leschied, 2002), mas sempre inferiores a toda a restante literatura relativa ao instrumento. A preponderância de casos da fase pré-sentencial na amostra recolhida em Portugal, por confronto com amostras institucionais e, por vezes, com amostras selecionadas em função da presença de problemas de saúde mental associados à delinquência (e.g., Rennie & Dolan, 2010) será um fator determinante para a compreensão destes resultados.…”

“…Catchpole & Gretton, 2003;Gossner & Wormith, 2007;Jung & Rawana, 1999;Rowe, 2002;Schmidt et al, 2005;Vieira, Skiling & Peterson-Badali, 2009;Welsh, Schmidt, McKinnon, Chattha, & Meyers, 2008) e, progressivamente, foi utilizado em diversos outros países, designadamente nos EUA (Flores, Travis, & Latessa, 2003;Marczyk et al, 2003Marczyk et al, , 2005Onifade, Davidson, Campbell, Turke, Malinowski, & Turner, 2008;Righthand, Prentky, Knight, Carpenter, Hecker, & Nangle, 2005), na Austrália (Thompson & Pope, 2005;Thompson & Putnins, 2003), na Irlanda (Davies & Gailey, 2005), em Espanha (Gómez, Garrido, & Cieza, 2008), no Reino Unido (Marshall, Egan, English, & Jones, 2006), em Inglaterra (Rennie & Dolan, 2010) e no Chile (Fundación Paz Ciudadana, 2010).…”

“What Works” Literature, How Is That Reflected in Juvenile Justice Policies in Albania?

“…Heike Jung (2003) emphasizes that criminal legislation that emphasizes safety and strong state is counterproductive. Jung says that "the consequences of this approach are social exclusion and feelings of lack of security" (Jung, 2003).…”

“…Jung says that "the consequences of this approach are social exclusion and feelings of lack of security" (Jung, 2003).…”