Citation

Ortega-Campos E, García-García J, Zaldívar-Basurto F. Front. Psychol. 2017; 8: e577.

Affiliation

Standing Seminar on Juvenile Justice, Psychology Department, University of AlmeríaAlmería, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00577

PMID

28446894

PMCID

PMC5388741

Abstract

The present study examined the predictive validity of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) in a group of young Spanish offenders. The sample is made up of 594 minors from the Juvenile Court, between the ages of 14 and 18 at the time they committed the delinquent act. The SAVRY was able to differentiate between low and high-risk younger offenders. Mean scores on risk factor are greater in the group of recidivist offenders, the group of non-recidivist shows higher mean scores in Protective domain. The accuracy of the instrument is high (AUCRiskTotalScore = 0.737 and AUCSummaryRiskRating = 0.748). An approximation of the predictive validity study of the SAVRY in Spanish younger offenders is presented. The results obtained support the SAVRY good functioning with not English samples.

Language: en

Keywords

SAVRY; predictive validity; recidivism; risk assessment; younger offenders