Summary Overview of Risk Assessment Tool - Part 2 with benefits and problems
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Course
Risk Assessment (500198B6)
Institution
Tilburg University (UVT)
This document includes an overview table of all mentioned tools as part of the 2nd year course Risk assessment given in Bsc Psychology (ENG) at Tilburg University. This is the 2nd part of a larger overview I created, with this part comprising of details of whether a tool is for adults/youth the dom...
Adult/
Tool Authors Domains youth Problems Benefits
Andrews and (1) Criminal history both
LSI-R (2) Leisure/Recreation
Bonta (1995) (3) Education/Employment
(4) Companions
(5) Financial
(6) Alcohol/Drug problem
(7) Family/Marital
(8) Emotional/Personal (9)
Accommodation (10)
Attitudes/Orientation
Hare (1) Selfish, callous, and - not actually a risk
PCL-R (1991,2003) remorseless use of assessment tool
others
(2) Chronically unstable
and antisocial lifestyle
Quinsey, n/a
SORAG Harris,
Rice, and
Cormier
(1998, 2006)
Harris, Static factors adult - cannot inform - empirically-based
Static-99/ Phenix, treatment
- easy to score
Static Hanson
and Thornton
cover 14 key areas
- does not measure
- norm to rank offenders
2002R (2003) change
- good predictor
, Quinsey, n/a
VRAG Harris, Rice,
and
Cormier
(1998, 2006)
Webster, (1) Historical risk factors - includes case formulation
HCR-20 Eaves, (2) Clinical risk factors
Douglas, and (3) Risk management factors - allows for flexibility
Wintrup - aims at informing risk
(1995) management/treatment
Webster,
Douglas, - version 3 improved for 6 key reasons
Eaves, and
Hart (1997)
Spreen et al., (1) Historical adult - Not yet validated for - Validated for male TBS violence
HKT-R 2014 (2) Clinical other criminal offenders (including sex offenders
(3) Future detention orders with adult victims)
- Women in general and male sex
offenders with juvenile victims do
not re-offend with violence:
validation impossible
- Answers questions from the
temporary release assessment
framework
- Sensitive to measuring change
(ROM)
Boer, Hart, (1) Historical risk factors Adult - some items are
SVR-20 Kropp, and (2) Social/Contextual risk overinclusive (e.g.,
Webster factors psychopathy, mental ● empirically related to future sexual
(1997) (3) Individual/Clinical risk illness) violence
factors ● useful in making decisions about the
(4) Protective factors - some items lack evidence
(e.g., past non-violent management of sex offenders
offences)
, - some redundancy in the ● non-discriminatory
items
● reasonably comprehensive but not
- no clear distinction static/ redundant
dynamic
● rate presence/absence + recent
changes
as a result:
- uncertain factor structure
- sub-optimal validity
- professional judgement
outperforms scoring
- does not include many
important factors (but
can be combined with
other measures)
they are revising it to address
limitations
Kropp & hart (1) General violence Adult
SARA (1994, 1995, (2) Spousal violence
1999)
Borum, (1) Historical risk factors Youth • Improve precision - Seems to be applicable to males and
SAVRY Bartel, & (2) Social/Contextual females
Forth (2002, risk factors • Understand utility of
2003) (3) Individual/Clinical summary risk rating - Good inter-rater reliability and
risk factors (esp. Because it is SPJ internal consistency
(4) Protective factors and not actuarial tool)
***** - AUC of .74 - .80 for violent and
general recidivism
- Allows planning of interventions and
, Static and dynamic factors treatment
- Monitoring
- Planning of release/ dismissal
- Formulate conditions for supervision
Wong & (1) Static adult Linear relationship between dynamic items
VRS Gordon, (2) dynamic and recidivism
2006
- Dynamic items have slightly higher
correlation (r=0.34) with violent
reconviction than static items (r=
0.27)
- ROC AUC at 4-year follow up =
0.75
Youth not all measures provide - expands to cover females
VRS- YV directions for treatments and
focus specifically on violence - substantial continuity between risk
risk factors for youth/adults
- sensitive to developmental issues
- good inter-rater reliability and internal
consistency
- AUC. 78-81 for violent and general
recidivism
can measure change
youth - not actually a risk - focused on youth
PCL:YV assessment tool
stable dynamic factors adult - does not capture - Works for either initial or
Stable200 reassessment
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