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35 Crim. Just. & Behavior 5 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv35 and id is 1 raw text is: 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 MARIO SCALORA LORRAINE CUADRA SHANNON BADER VERONICA CHAVEZ 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 instru- ments 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. Keywords: risk assessment; violence; sex offending; juvenile; adolescent C linicians are commonly asked to make judgments about the likelihood that a youth who has committed a sexual offense will reoffend. Courts often seek clinicians' opinions about a youth's violence risk level in making decisions about whether a youth should be transferred to adult court (Kent v. United States, 1966), and in determining appropriate place- ments and dispositions (Hoge, 2002). In treatment settings, knowledge about a youth's risk is used to assist with treatment planning by identifying risk factors that may be targeted AUTHORS' NOTE: This study was supported by a grant from the Woods Charitable Fund, Inc. The authors would like to thank Larry Cook for his assistance with this project and the staff at Lincoln Regional Center Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jodi Viljoen, PhD, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6; e-mail: jviljoen @ sfu. ca. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 35 No. 1, January 2008 5-23 DOI: 10.1177/0093854807307521 0 2008 American Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology 5

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