ABSTRACT
Risk in Youth (SAVRY) RANDY BORUM, HENNY LODEWIJKS, PATRICK A. BARTEL, and ADELLE E. FORTH
Description of Measure
e Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) (Bartel, Borum, & Forth, 2003; Borum, Bartel, & Forth, 2006) is a “structured professional judgment” (SPJ) tool for assessing violence risk in adolescents (between the approximate ages of 12 and 18). For purposes of using the instrument, violence is dened as “an act of physical battery suciently severe to cause injury that would require medical attention, a threat with a weapon in hand, or any act of forcible sexual assault.” Risk itself is viewed as the product of dynamic and reciprocal interplay between factors that increase, and factors that decrease, the likelihood of violent oending in the developing young person over time (Borum & Verhaagen, 2006). Although designed specically to assess risk of violence, several studies have found the SAVRY also to be eective in forecasting risk of general criminal or delinquent recidivism. It has been less successful for appraising risk of sexual oending specically, but its performance has been comparable to that of other tools designed for juvenile sex oender assessment.
