Abstract

SALAZAR MUNOZ, Miguel; ALVAREZ VIVAR, Luis  and  PEREZ-LUCO ARENAS, Ricardo. Instruments for the appreciation of the sexual violence risk in adolescent sexual offenders: validity evidences in Latin American countries. Rev. Crim. [online]. 2016, vol.58, n.3, pp.87-99. ISSN 1794-3108.

The objective of this review article consist of getting to know the validity evidence available in Latin America of the main instruments existing in the international sphere for the appreciation of the sexual recidivism risk in adolescent sexual offenders. For this purpose, a descriptive bibliographical review was carried out where similar or associated key words were used with the matter being analyzed, through the ISI Web of Science and Scopus databases and the Google Scholar metasearch. The results point at Canada and the United States as the major countries in the creation of this type of mechanisms, with tools such as J-SOAP-II, ERASOR 2.0, JSORRAT-II, J-RAT, MEGA and DASH-13. Likewise, a scarcity of researches serving to explore the psychometric properties of these instruments in Latin America and the lack of signs around the construction of those serving for the assessment of sexual violence within this geographical zone. The implications of these effects for evaluation and intervention in adolescent sexual offenders are discussed and the difficulties relating to the overutilization of clinical judgment in risk assessment and/or the use of tools deprived of validity for this population are duly acknowledged

Keywords : Sexual offenders; young sexual offenders; risk assessment; predicted recidivism; sexual offender treatment.

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