The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), developed by Randy Borum, Patrick Bartel, and Adelle Forth, is a risk assessment instrument designed to structure appraisals of violence risk and risk management plans for adolescents. Such assessments are routinely required by juvenile and criminal courts and at nearly every juncture of the juvenile justice
The Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS) is a fully structured interview that is designed to assess feigned mental disorders and related response styles. Each of its eight primary scales was constructed to evaluate well-established detection strategies for differentiating between malingered and genuine psychopathology. These primary scales consist of Rare Symptoms (RS), Symptom Combinations (SC)
Interviews are one tool among many used in various selection processes, including the law enforcement selection process. In general, the goal of a selection procedure is to select the best qualified individual for the job while minimizing potential errors in decisions made using these tools. One way to minimize the potential for decision errors related
The Structured Assessment of Protective Factors (SAPROF) for violence has been under development since the early 2000s. Arguably, it represents one of the most systematized attempts at creating an adult-focused protective factor assessment tool that mirrors the structure commonly found in other risk assessment tools. It joins a relatively small but growing group of forensic
The Structured Risk Assessment-Forensic Version (SRA-FV) is one of a number of tools that professionals may use to assist them in assessing an individual’s risk of sexual reoffending. Professionals working with men who have been convicted of committing a sexual offense are commonly expected to identify psychological factors that are thought to predispose offenders to
The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) is one of the most widely used and researched structured risk assessment tools designed to assess risk of general violence in male and female youth between the ages of 12–18 years. The SAVRY is particularly relevant to the topic of correctional psychology, given its applicability to
Structured professional judgment (SPJ) is a formal method of evaluating the risk of future violence. Such evaluations are required in numerous contexts, such as parole decisions, release from forensic hospitals, civil commitment, when violence threatens the workplace, among others. Originating in the mid-1990s, the SPJ approach consists of a family of risk assessment measures devoted
The Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS) is a fully structured interview that is designed to assess feigned mental disorders and related response styles. Each of its eight primary scales was constructed to evaluate well-established detection strategies for differentiating between malingered and genuine psychopathology. These primary scales consist of Rare Symptoms (RS), Symptom Combinations (SC)