Adaptation of the Evaluative Scale of Violent Behavior and Risk of Recidivism (SVVBRR) in a Peruvian penitentiary sample

• Autor: Conde Mendoza, Jari Yasser
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20019
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/psicologia/article/view/20019
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Forensic Psychology; factorial analysis; risk of violence; criminogenic risk; psicología forense; análisis factorial; riesgo de violencia; riesgo criminógeno; Psychologie médico-légale/judiciaire/criminelle; analyse factorielle; risque de violence; risque criminogène; Psicologia Forense; análise fatorial; risco de violência; risco criminoso

The judicial systems require psychologists to evaluate subjects who serve sentences in penitentiary establishments in order to assess the possibility of reinsertion in society. Consequently, prison psychologists have developed techniques and procedures for assessing the risk of violent behavior based on the identification of risk factors. The objective of this study was to adapt the first instrument for assessing the risk of violence in the Peruvian prison context. Content validity was evidenced by expert judgment and with a sample of 303 inmates, construct validity was identified through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Finally, the diagnostic accuracy was established by means of the ROC curve. The results indicate that the adaptation of the EVCV-RR is an adequate instrument to assess the criminogenic risk.