Citation

Garombo MF, Salvadori S, Contarino A, Castellino N, Molinaro S, Garofano P, Molo MT, Veglia F, Rosso C. J. Sex. Aggress. 2016; 22(2): 137-146.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/13552600.2015.1047908

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In order to assess the internal structure of Risk Matrix 2000 in an Italian sample of 308 adult males convicted for sex abuse, a principal component analysis with Promax rotation was performed. The results identified a structure with three factors that explained 53.8% of the total variance: the first factor concerned items referred to the criminal career of the offender; the second factor concerned the age of onset in committing crimes; the third factor was more strictly related to the offenders' attitude towards the sex crime/s, and reflects the aggravating items of the S scale. These results allows us to have the first validated tool on an Italian sample for assessing the level of risk for recidivism.