Justice Research Summary: “Prediction And Risk/Needs Assessment”

In May 2014, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) released a Justice Research bulletin (NCJ 243976) exploring predictions of young adult crime from juvenile histories and assessments of risk, needs, and protective factors. The bulletin discusses our ability to predict whether a young adult will commit crimes based on information available from his or her juvenile years and reviews assessment tools used to make these predictions. Predicting the onset of criminal activity and whether it will persist depends on the early identification of serious and violent individuals and the risks . . .