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Praktikeres risikovurderinger: brugen af risikofaktorer i forebyggelsen af ungdomskriminalitet
Author(s) -
Morten Ejrnæs,
Merete Monrad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2446-3051
pISSN - 0029-1528
DOI - 10.7146/ntfk.v107i2.124868
Subject(s) - apprehension , psychology , work (physics) , risk assessment , diversity (politics) , risk management , sample (material) , medical education , applied psychology , environmental health , medicine , sociology , engineering , finance , business , computer security , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , computer science , anthropology , cognitive psychology
ocial work practitioners support vulnerable children and youth who have problems or are at risk of developing problems. Increasingly, politicians and authorities are emphasizing the role of early crime prevention in social work and the role of risk factors in crime prevention. However, there has not been a focus on how practitioners actually estimate the risk of a young person being apprehended as a first-time offender. We study practitioners’ risk assessments through three vignettes. The vignettes have been constructed using register- and survey-based research on the association between youth crime and a diversity of risk factors. The vignettes are thereby constructed to allow a comparison between the risk assessments of practitioners and the actual risk as demonstrated by the data. The study utilizes a sample of 312 health visitors, teachers (including nursery school teachers) and social workers. The results indicate that practitioners grossly overestimate the risk of apprehension for first-time offences in all three vignettes. The average assessment of the risk is approximately 50 percentage points higher than the actual calculatedrisk. Furthermore, there is a large variation in the risk assessments given by different practitioners. Moreover, practitioners associate terms such as “high risk” with very different probabilities of crime.

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