O presente artigo reporta o processo de adaptação e validação da versão portuguesa do Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) numa amostra de 2363 jovens em contacto com a ex-Direção Geral de Reinserção Social, Ministério da Justiça, Portugal. Este inventário avalia risco/necessidades criminógenas e fatores de proteção dos jovens delinquentes para utilização na assessoria técnica aos tribunais e na gestão de casos. Procedeu-se à tradução, retroversão e adaptação linguística do instrumento e à acreditação de profissionais como seus utilizadores. Foram estabelecidos os dados normativos para Portugal e perfis de risco que permitem diferenciar os jovens em função da fase processual, medida aplicada, antecedentes criminais, tipo de crime e diversas variáveis relativas ao seu contexto sociocultural.
Several brief screening measures for youth risk to reoffend have been developed; however, these measures have been tested primarily in high-income English-speaking countries and their predictive validity is limited. A recent study proposed a screening strategy using a combination of seven items from the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI). Predictive validity for this strategy was better than that reported in studies of previously developed screening tools. In the current study, the predictive validity of this strategy was examined across samples of justice-involved youth from two countries: Canada ( N = 196) and Portugal ( N = 2,348). The full version of the YLS/CMI was completed and recidivism data were collected over a 2-year period. Results support the predictive validity of this strategy, with area under the curve (AUC) values (.69–.74) very similar to those found in the full version in each country, both in the full samples, and for both genders.
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