| Tittel: | Predicting Intimate Partner Violence Recidivism using the Swedish Prison and Probation Service’s Risk-Need-Responsivity Assessment (RNR-A) |
| Ansvar: | Louise C. Starfelt Sutton, Björn N. Persson og Maria Danielsson |
| Forfatter: | Sutton, Louise C. Starfelt  / Persson, Björn N. / Danielsson, Maria |
| Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk |
| Signatur: | Nordic Journal of Studies in Policing |
| Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2023 |
| Omfang: | S. 1-20 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 2578-9821 |
| Serie: | Nordic Journal of Criminology ; 1/2023 |
| Emneord: | Familievold / Fengsel / Vitenskapelig publikasjon / Vold |
| Geografiske emneord: | Sverige |
| Note: | Open access. Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) |
| Innhold: | Abstract
The Swedish Prison and Probation Service (SPPS) provides risk-reducing interventions tailored to clients’ recidivism risk, with the intake assessment RNR-A informing sentence plans. This study tested the predictive utility of the RNR-A in a cohort of 3,145 clients (M age = 39 years, 2% women) convicted of intimate partner violence (IPV). During 24 months of follow-up, IPV reconvictions (10% overall) increased significantly with each increase in risk level (low, medium, high). Discrimination performance was comparable to similar instruments (AUC range = .59–.68). A high proportion of IPV recidivists were classified as medium-to-high risk (sensitivity range = 87–95%) at the cost of over-inclusion of non-recidivists in these risk levels (specificity range = 13–27%). This study contributes to broader efforts to evaluate the implementation of Bonta and Andrews’ (2017) risk principle in the SPPS and supports the use of the RNR-A to screen out those clients with the least need of IPV-specific intervention. Further instrument development and calibration in combination with the use of in-depth assessments for complex medium-to-high risk cases may increase the potential of effective service delivery, providing intensive and extensive services to clients with the greatest risk and needs.
Keywords: intimate partner violence, risk assessment, recidivism, prison, probation |
| Del av verk: | Nordic Journal of Criminology 1/2023 |