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Practical Guide to Youth Risk and Need Assessments in Latin America and the Caribbean
Risk Need Assessments (RNA) are standardized tools to help determine the likelihood of recidivism, or the odds of getting into trouble again. Using these tools can help to improve decision-making and outcomes. Despite empirical support for their use, relatively few jurisdictions in Latin America and the Caribbean have adopted these tools. Commissioned by USAID and supported by American Institutes for Research, this interactive Practical Guide to Youth Risk Need Assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean is designed for people who work with criminal justice or juvenile justice involved youth.
This guide is intended to help you identify tools that can assist in your decision-making, both about what types of tools to use and how to use the results of these instruments. Our goal is to provide you with a guide of detailed information and examples from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) on how your colleagues are using Risk/ Need Assessments (RNA). These assessments are tools that can help you to better identify the risk of reoffending and prioritize youth for services designed to reduce their risk level. Throughout this guide, we will refer to risk/need assessment(s) as RNA for ease.
For more information contact:
Deborah Koetzle, PhD
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
dkoetzle@jjay.cuny.edu
Traducción al español de: Dra. Cristina Lozano Argüelles
Guía práctica de evaluaciones de riesgos y necesidades para jóvenes en América Latina y el Caribe
Esta guía pretende ayudarles a identificar las herramientas que pueden ser útiles en la toma de decisiones, tanto sobre qué tipos de herramientas utilizar como sobre la utilización de los resultados de estos instrumentos. Nuestro objetivo es proporcionarle una guía con información detallada y ejemplos de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) sobre cómo sus colegas utilizan las Evaluaciones de Riesgo/Necesidad (ERN). Estas evaluaciones son herramientas que pueden facilitar la identificación del nivel riesgo de reincidencia y priorizar a los jóvenes para los servicios diseñados para reducir su nivel de riesgo. Para facilitar el uso de esta guía, nos referiremos a la(s) evaluación(es) de riesgo/necesidad como ERN.
Para más información, póngase en contacto con:
Dra. Deborah Koetzle
Universidad John Jay College of Criminal Justice
dkoetzle@jjay.cuny.edu