@article{ref1,
title="Validity and reliability of the Violence Risk Scale-Youth Sexual Offense Version",
journal="Sexual abuse: a journal of research and treatment",
year="2019",
author="Rojas, Erika Y. and Olver, Mark E.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1079063219858064-1079063219858064",
abstract="The present study examined the validity and reliability of a youth sexual offense risk assessment and treatment planning tool, the Violence Risk Scale-Youth Sexual Offense Version (VRS-YSO), on a sample of 102 court-adjudicated youth referred to assessment and/or treatment outpatient services followed up an average of 11.7 years in the community. VRS-YSO scores demonstrated &quot;good&quot; to &quot;excellent&quot; interrater reliability (intraclass correlation coefficients [ICCs] =.64-.83). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the static and dynamic items identified three latent dimensions consistent with the extant risk literature labeled Sexual Deviance, Antisocial Tendencies, and Family Concerns. VRS-YSO scores showed strong patterns of convergence with scores from the Estimate of Risk for Adolescent Sexual Offense Recidivism (ERASOR), Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol-II (J-SOAP-II), and the Juvenile Sexual Offense Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool-II (J-SORRAT-II). VRS-YSO scores, in turn, demonstrated moderate to high predictive accuracy for sexual, violent (sexual and nonsexual), and general recidivism (significant areas under curve [AUCs] =.67-.88). Examination of pre-posttreatment change data on the subset of youth who attended treatment services found VRS-YSO change scores to be significantly associated with reductions in general recidivism, but not other recidivism outcomes. Future research and clinical applications of the VRS-YSO in youth sexual offense assessment and treatment planning are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1079-0632",
doi="10.1177/1079063219858064",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1079063219858064"
}