Risk Assessments

Question 1

What is the best assessment approach to risk assessment?

Answer 1

Structured Professional Judgment (SPJ)
- evaluator gathers and synthesizes data and makes a judge about risk for violence
- limited list of items or factors
- scoring system
- in contrast to “actuarial assessment” - data, stats (ARAIs)

Question 2

Name 3 risk assessment tools for recidivism

Answer 2

• Level of Service Inventory-R (LSI-R) - most frequently used, quantitative

Question 3

What are the “Big Four” variants of criminal behavior

Answer 3

1. Criminal history
2. antisocial attitudes
3. antisocial associates
4. antisocial personality patterns

Question 4

What is the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory 2 (YLS/CMI 2.0)?

Answer 4

• second gen recidivism assessment tool
• semistructured, same theory as LSI-R
• ages 12- 18

Question 5

HCR-20

Answer 5

• Historical, Clinical and Risk
• well researched violence risk tool
• 20-item

Question 6

SAVRY

Answer 6

Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY)
- ages 12- 18
- historical, social/contextual, indiv/clinical

Question 7

VRAG

Answer 7

• Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG)
• weighted, 12-item tool
• primarily historical, but also dynamic factors
• most researched

Question 8

COVR

Answer 8

• Classification of Violence Risk (COVR)
• developed by MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Group
• iterative classification tree (ICT) = decision tree process
• administered by separate person from analysis

Question 9

Static-99R

Answer 9

• sexual offending risk offending
• 10 item, compares to offenders’ recidivism
• most commonly used to assess risk of sexual offending

Question 10

PCL-R

Answer 10

Psychopathy Checklist-R
- not same as DSM-5 antisocial personality