Assessing Violence Risk Among Youth
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2000
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(200010)56:10<1263::AID-JCLP3>3.0.CO;2-D
Abstract
Despite recent declines in the reported rate of juvenile violence, there appears to be increasing public and professional concern about violent behavior among children and adolescents. Media accounts of school shootings and juvenile homicides have prompted a need to develop approaches for systematically assessing violence risk. This article describes the task of assessing general violence risk among youth, and argues that a somewhat different approach is required to assess cases where an identified or identifiable young person may pose a risk to a specifically identified or identifiable target (also referred to as “targeted violence”). Key risk factors for violent behavior among children and adolescents are identified, fundamental principles for conducting an assessment of violence potential in clinical and juvenile justice contexts are outlined, and an approach to assessment when an identified person engages in some communication or behavior of concern that brings him or her to official attention is briefly described.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Clinical Psychology, v. 56, issue 10, p. 1263-1288
Scholar Commons Citation
Borum, Randy, "Assessing Violence Risk Among Youth" (2000). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 551.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/551
