Citation

Pérez Ramírez M, Redondo Illescas S, Martínez García M, García Forero C, Andres Pueyo A. Psicothema 2008; 20(2): 205-210.

Vernacular Title

Prediccion de riesgo de reincidencia en agresores sexuales.

Affiliation

Universidad de Barcelona.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad de Oviedo, Publisher Colegio Oficial de Psicológicas de Asturias)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

18413079

Abstract

Recidivism risk assessment in sex offenders. Violent behaviour risk assessment is one of the most relevant research areas in current Psychology of Crime. Various scales for violence risk assessment have recently been developed from research about crime careers and risk factors. One of these instruments is the Sexual Violence Risk Assessment-20 (SVR-20), translated and adapted to Spanish by the Group of Advanced Studies in Violence of the University of Barcelona. The goal of this study is to verify the predictive capacity of the SVR-20 to predict sexual violence recidivism in a Spanish sample of sexual offender inmates. The method used was a retrospective study based in 163 sexual offender files and a 4-year time lag. The data were analysed with the logistic regression technique. Of the sample, 79.9% non-recidivist individuals were correctly classified, and 70.8% recidivist individuals. The ROC curve obtained for the model shows a very good discriminant capacity for the SVR-20, wi.

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