Merging theoretical frameworks to inform risk assessment for the young female offender

Women’s Pathways to Serious and Habitual Crime

“…The life course persistent (LCP) pathway was defined by a more complex etiology, involving early childhood problems, abusive or neglectful parents, and neurocognitive deficits leading to lengthy criminal careers. Several replication studies have examined Moffitt's pathways on female offenders, again with mixed results (Aalsma & Lapsley, 2001;Brennan, 2008;kratzer & Hodgkins, 1999;Moffitt et al, 2001;Simpson et al, 2009;Tibbetts & Piquero, 1999). Several unresolved questions regarding Moffitt's taxonomy in relation to women offenders are as follows.…”

The youth assessment screening instrument : a psychometric evaluation with Canadian male youthful offenders

“…York (Orbis Partners, 2007a;Jones, 2011); however, as it is a relatively new tool, its reliability and validity have not been fully examined. The purpose o f this study is to conduct a psychometric evaluation of the YASI with a sample of Canadian male justice-involved youth.…”

“…In regards to implementation, the use o f the YASI is extensive across several state jurisdictions (i.e., California, Illinois, North Dakota, New York, Vermont, Virginia), but it is also being employed with youthful offenders in Canada and Scotland (Jones, 2011;Orbis Partners, 2007a). The implementation o f the YASI in the Canadian correctional system has been limited to Alberta and Ontario (Jones, 2011;Orbis Partners, 2010).…”

“…In regards to implementation, the use o f the YASI is extensive across several state jurisdictions (i.e., California, Illinois, North Dakota, New York, Vermont, Virginia), but it is also being employed with youthful offenders in Canada and Scotland (Jones, 2011;Orbis Partners, 2007a). The implementation o f the YASI in the Canadian correctional system has been limited to Alberta and Ontario (Jones, 2011;Orbis Partners, 2010). Despite increasing use across various correctional systems nationally and internationally, only a few studies examining the psychometric properties (i.e., predictive validity, internal consistency, inter-rater reliability) o f the YASI have been published (Jones, 2011;Orbis Partners, 2007a;Skeem, Hernandez, Kennealy, & Rich, 2011).…”

Exploring the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity, Self-Worth, and Criminal Identification in a Mixed Gender Sample of Adolescent Offenders

“…In addition, individual items within a given domain are tallied to generate domain sub scores of low, moderate, or high as follows: static risk (SR), dynamic risk (DR), static protective (SP), and dynamic protective (DP). Predictive validity of the YASI with justice involved youth on probation from New York State was conducted byJones (2011) with a sample of 2, 369 youth (males = 1, 550 and females = 819). Results for the full assessment risk score predicted new convictions for both males (AUC = .63) and females (AUC = .62).…”