What is it about?
This manuscript demonstrates the application and utility of extending a “common language risk assessment framework” (i.e., a standard system for communicating about risk-needs levels) to a dynamic violence risk assessment and intervention planning tool for youth (the VRS-YV). In addition, the present study sought to extend the risk-level system across gender (male - female) and ethnoracial groups (Indigenous - White majority, non-Indigenous).
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Why is it important?
Results suggest that evidence informed, gender stratified, violence risk levels using the VRS-YV can be used to prioritize service delivery, inform risk management, and guide violence prevention efforts for gender and ethnoracially diverse youth.
Perspectives
This article illustrates how research originating in my dissertation on the VRS-YV has evolved over the past two decades. Co-authored with my research supervisor and longstanding collaborators, this research also flows from the work of frontline clinicians providing assessment and treatment services to justice-involved youth to prevent future violence, and we hope our findings can help towards this important goal.
Keira Stockdale
University of Saskatchewan
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This page is a summary of: Assessing dynamic violence risk in youth: Updated risk levels and recidivism estimates for the Violence Risk Scale–Youth Version., Psychological Assessment, July 2026, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/pas0001488.
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