Validation of recidivism risk assessment for mentally disordered offenders

The purpose of this study is to verify the validity of assessment tools to evaluate the risk of recidivism for mentally disordered offenders. The subjects of our study are mentally disordered offenders admitted to the National Forensic Hospital, and we used their official records in order to create a well-organized and in-depth interview based on semi-structured questionnaires. By reviewing previous research, this study identified the reliability and validity of recidivism risk assessment tools (LSI-R, HCR-20, VRAG), which had been widely used in other countries. Cronbach's α of internal consistency in the results of this study were shown as followed: LSI-R .81, HCR-20 .71, VRAG .60. Additionally, the inter-rater reliability ranged from ICC .78 to 1.00. The correlations of each assessment's total score and factors were presented in this study. By analyzing ROC, we found the predicting power and cut-off score of each assessment tool. We expect that we can estimate and predict, objectively and reasonably, the recidivism risk of mentally disordered offenders by conducting a follow-up study, which would focus on demographic factors and four other recidivism-related factors which had shown significant differences between high-risk groups and low-risk groups. We also discussed the limitations of this study and the direction of follow-up research.

keywords: 정신장애 범죄자, 재범 위험 평가, LSI-R, HCR-20, VRAG, PCL-R, mentally disordered offender, recidivism, risk assessment, LSI-R, HCR-20, PCL-R, VRAG

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Validation of recidivism risk assessment for mentally disordered offenders

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