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This version was published on January 1, 2008
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 1, 5-23 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854807307521
© 2008 International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology

Assessing Risk for Violence in Adolescents Who Have Sexually Offended

A Comparison of the J-SOAP-II, J-SORRAT-II, and SAVRY

Jodi L. Viljoen

Simon Fraser University, jviljoen @sfu.ca

Mario Scalora

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lorraine Cuadra

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Shannon Bader

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Verónica Chávez

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Daniel Ullman

Lincoln Regional Center

Lisa Lawrence

Western New England College

As the youth justice system has evolved, clinicians have been increasingly asked to make judgments about the likelihood that a youth who has committed a sexual offense will reoffend. However, there is an absence of well-validated tools to assist with these judgments. This study examined the ability of the Juvenile Sexual Offense Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool—II (J-SORRAT-II), Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), and Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol—II (J-SOAP-II) to predict violent behavior in 169 male youth who were admitted to a residential adolescent sex offender program. Total scores on the SAVRY and J-SOAP-II significantly predicted nonsexual violence but none of the instruments predicted sexual violence. The J-SOAP-II and SAVRY were less effective in predicting violent reoffending in youth aged 15 and younger than in older youth. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Key Words: risk assessment • violence • sex offending • juvenile • adolescent


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