General Information

The High Risk Situations Questionnaire for Young Offenders is designed to asess the self-reported importance of various antecedents to a past, highly salient, offense. Analysis of items produce scores on the following three criteria: Negative Affectivity, Delinquency, and Aggressivity. This questionnaire was modelled after a similar measure developed for assessment of risk factors among adult sexual offenders (Minor, Marques, Day, & Nelson, 1990).

Number of Versions:	1
Version:	High Risk Situations Questionnaire for Young Offenders
Author(s):	Andrew J. Howell, John R. Reddon, & Richard A. Enns
Date of Publication:	1997
Material(s) Needed for Test:	Instrument
Manual:	Not Available
Charge for one form or kit:	No

Purpose and Nature of Test

Construct(s) Measured:	Aggression
Population for which designed:	Age Range: 12 through 18 years old
Method of Administration:	Group and Individual
Source of Information:	Self
Subtests and Scores:	Delinquency, Negative Affectivity, Aggression
Number of Items:	66
Type of Scale:	Likert

Technical Evaluation

Norms: 

Sample Size:	115
Population:	Male adolescents admitted to an assessment and treatment program in the forensic section of a psychiatric facility (referred for court-mandated predisposition assessments).
Culture/ethnicity:	Caucasian
SES Level:	Not reported by author(s).

Reliability: 

Psychometric information:	Provided for Subscales.
The range of Test-Retest Value:	Not assessed
The range of Inter-rater reliability:	Not assessed
The range of Internal consistency:	Not assessed

Validity: 

 Criterion validity was assessed and found to be acceptable.

Practical Evaluation

Scoring Procedure:	Manual Scoring
Examiner Qualifications and Training Required:	None
Permission Required to Use Instrument:	Yes
If yes, by whom:	Andrew J. Howell

Notes

Original Reference(s):	Howell, A. J., Reddon, J. R., & Enns, R. A. (1997). Immediate antecendents to adolescents' offenses. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 53 (4), 355-360.
Other Reference(s):	Howell, A. J., Reddon, J. R., & Enn, R. A. (2000). Validating the High Risk Situations Questionnaire for Young Offenders in a forensic hospital. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 31 (3-4), 81-92.
Other:	Scale is published in Howell, Reddon, and Enn (2000).

Contact

Name:	Andrew J. Howell
Organization:	Grant MacEwan Community College, Psychology Department, Division of Arts and Science
Address:	10045 - 156 Street 6-388
City:	Edmonton, AB
State:	CA
Zip:	T5P2P7
Phone:	(480) 497-5329
Fax:	(780) 497-5308
E-mail:	howella@admin.gmcc.ab.ca
Website:	http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/

Last updated by Violence Institute of New Jersey:  February 2007