title: Risk assessment and offender victim relationship in juvenile offenders.
abstract: The present study compares the Historical, Clinical, and Risk Management-20 (HCR-20) checklist in a male offender population of 108 adolescents using the relationship between the offender and the victim as a classification factor. Two types of relationship were retained for comparison purposes: family victim/known victim and unknown victim. All adolescents admitted to the Adolescent program of Montréal's Philippe-Pinel Institute from February 1998 to April 2003 were assessed and their families were met. The HCR-20 checklist was completed for each adolescent. Statistically significant differences were observed for the mean rank of the total score of the HCR-20 and two sub-scales, the historical subscale (H) and the risk management subscale (R). The results indicate that the adolescents who victimize strangers have more violent risk factors compared to those who victimize family/known victims. These results have important implications regarding prevention and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal, Canada.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lusignan
authors.forename: Jacques D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Marleau
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D011792:Quebec / Q000453:epidemiology; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors