NCJ Number
248276
Journal
Victims and Offenders Volume: 9 Issue: 3 Dated: July-September 2014 Pages: 317-333
Date Published
September 2014
Length
17 pages
Annotation
Toward the end of developing an instrument for assessing an inmate's risk of violent, nonsexual victimization, the authors examined predictors of victimization.
Abstract
Recent prison studies have identified several factors associated with the odds of both committing and being victimized by inmate violence. Toward the end of developing an instrument for assessing an inmate's risk of violent, nonsexual victimization, the authors examined predictors of victimization grounded in extant studies of the topic. The sample included 12,024 adult male inmates. Using a 25 percent random sample of these inmates, a risk assessment instrument was created to predict the likelihood of violent, nonsexual victimization during incarceration (the Inmate Risk Assessment for Violent Nonsexual Victimization [RVNSV]). The RVNSV was validated on the three additional random subsamples of inmates. Bivariate and multivariate analyses confirm the RVNSV as a valid predictor of institutional violent, nonsexual victimization. These findings support the further exploration of prison risk assessment tools that use measures of victimization as dependent variables. Abstract published by arrangement with Taylor and Francis.