| Summary: | Growing needs of our experts for operative and relevant tool for risk
assessment of children and adolescents in conflict with the law initiated
construction of the Scale for Assessment of the Risk of Children and
Juveniles for Conflict with the Law (Risk Scale). This paper presents results
of research aiming on assessment of psychometric characteristics of the Scale
and its applicability by experts in centres for social work (CSW). Scale has
72 items organized in nine subscales. Research included 65 subjects from 11
to 20 years of age, assessed by the Scale by 32 experts from nine
municipality’s CSW in Serbia. Scale as a whole and its five subscales have
good reliability. Two second order factors were extracted: Risks to the
child/young person and Environmental risks that have acceptable reliability
and good criteria validity in relation to Scale of Antisocial Behaviour
Chronicity. Experts assessed that Scale is useful in practice and most of
them didn’t have any difficulties in its application. Qualitative analysis of
the result provided guidelines for further improvement of the Risk scale and
for more comprehensive education of experts it the area. [Projekat
Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 47011: Kriminal u Srbiji -
fenomenologija, rizici i mogućnosti socijalne intervencije]
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