Criminal Justice and Behavior · 1999 · 194 citations · 25 references
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The study evaluated the Ministry Risk/Need Assessment Form (MRNAF) by assessing 263 young offenders in a Canadian city and following 250 of them for six months to observe subsequent offending. Results showed that the MRNAF’s total score and all eight risk/need factors distinguished recidivists from nonrecidivists, and that ethnicity and sex did not affect its predictive accuracy.
The validity of a newly developed probation risk and need assessment instrument, the Ministry Risk/Need Assessment Form (MRNAF), was evaluated in a medium-sized Canadian city over-represented by Native Canadians. In the present study, 263 young offenders were assessed on the MRNAF. At 6 months, 250 youths were followed-up to determine if they had offended subsequent to their initial assessment. Results indicated that the total risk/need score and all of the eight risk/need factors could discriminate between recidivists and nonrecidivists. Moreover, despite some differences between Native and non-Native youths and between male and female youths, the ethnicity and sex of young offenders were inconsequential with regards to the instrument's prediction of recidivism. Therefore, the findings support MRNAF as a robust risk/need assessment instrument to ethnicity and sex.
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