TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Recidivism risk assessment in sex offenders
JO  - Psicothema
A1  - Pérez Ramírez, Meritxell
A1  - Redondo Illescas, Santiago
A1  - Martínez García, Marian
A1  - García Forero, Carlos
A1  - Andres Pueyo, Antonio
SP  - 205
EP  - 210
VL  - 20
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: es</p>
LA  - es
SN  - 0214-9915
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -