Developing a Juvenile Risk Assessment Instrument for Iowa State Evaluation Capacity Building, 1994-1995
Description
This study was undertaken to address Iowa's inability to
classify juveniles at risk of recidivism uniformly across the state by
creating and testing a proposed risk assessment instrument. It was
anticipated that the risk assessment instrument would be useful in not
only providing the juvenile court officers with a tool to
appropriately assess the risk of recidivism, but also in providing
"common ground" to treatment staff and other relevant officials to
determine whether certain interventions worked better with certain
levels of risk than others, and whether limited resources were being
appropriately utilized in providing appropriate interventions to
juveniles with specific risk scores. To develop the Proposed Iowa
Juvenile Court Intake Risk Assessment, a team of juvenile court
representatives from all eight judicial districts in Iowa, consisting
of juvenile court officers, intake officers, and supervisors, designed
a risk assessment test instrument to assess a group of juveniles at
intake during a one-month period between October and November
1994. The follow-up data collection was conducted by chief juvenile
court officers eight months after the original data collection. The
purpose of the follow-up was to gather data regarding
reoffending. Risk assessment variables include types and number of
current offenses, prior arrests and adjudication, histories of
supervision and service, substance use and abuse, runaway occurrences,
peer relationships, gang affiliation, attitude during intake
interview, level of parental control, schooling status (dropped out,
graduated, truant), type of current school, discipline problems,
suspensions at school, current employment, history of family problems,
and reoffending. Demographic variables include offender's sex and
race.
Resources
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ICPSR02632.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02632.v1 |
Tags
- recidivism
- juvenile-offenders
- risk-assessment
- youths-at-risk
- treatment-programs
- intervention
- criminal-histories