Validation of and revision to the VRAG and SORAG: the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide-Revised (VRAG-R).

Abstract:

:The violence risk appraisal guide (VRAG) was developed in the early 1990s, and approximately 60 replications around the world have shown its utility for the appraisal of violence risk among correctional and psychiatric populations. At the same time, authorities (e.g., Dawes, Faust, & Meehl, 1989) have argued that tools should be periodically evaluated to see if they need to be revised. In the present study, we evaluated the accuracy of the VRAG in a sample of 1,261 offenders, fewer than half of whom were participants in the development sample, then developed and validated a revised and easier-to-score instrument (the VRAG-R). We examined the accuracy of both instruments over fixed durations of opportunity ranging from 6 months to 49 years and examined outcome measures pertaining to the overall number, severity, and imminence of violent recidivism. Both instruments were found to predict dichotomous violent recidivism overall and at various fixed follow-ups with high levels of predictive accuracy (receiver operating characteristic areas of approximately .75) and to significantly predict other violent outcomes.

journal_name

Psychol Assess

journal_title

Psychological assessment

authors

Rice ME,Harris GT,Lang C

doi

10.1037/a0032878

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-09-01 00:00:00

pages

951-65

issue

3

eissn

1040-3590

issn

1939-134X

pii

2013-15710-001

journal_volume

25

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