Developing a new risk and needs assessment tool for young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour

在英国，青少年性伤害是一个日益严重的问题。据估计，18岁以下的人犯下了25%的家庭内虐待和高达66%的儿童性虐待。在表现出有害性行为的年轻人中，有三分之二的人自己也经历过类似的行为，因此必须满足这些年轻人的保障和福利需求。作为该项目的一部分，将在对表现出有害性行为的青年进行的系统性文献审查中查明风险和保护因素。然后，将开发一个风险和需求评估工具和一个新的编码时间表，对这些因素进行编码，并在一组遭受性伤害的年轻人的档案中进行测试。最后，将利用对病例档案队列累犯数据的回顾性访问。新的风险和需求评估工具的开发将有助于避免对风险的低估或高估，确保案件能够得到适当的识别和管理，并提供适当的服务，更多地考虑到更广泛的系统和社会因素。将确定所开发工具的敏感性和特异性。将与CASE的合作伙伴G-map服务密切合作，以确保这项工作的影响，这将为评估和干预做法以及关于遭受性伤害的青年的地方和国家政策提供信息。风险和需求评估工具将直接有益于CASE合作伙伴，并将提供给从事性伤害青年工作的其他专业人员使用。拟议的项目将涉及阅读和编码高度敏感的材料，从G-map服务案件档案和管理高度敏感的数据有关的重新犯罪信息的案件。

Sexual harm committed by youth is an increasing issue in the UK. Estimates suggest that those under the age of 18 perpetrate 25% of intra-familial abuse and up to 66% of all child sexual abuse. With two thirds of young people who display harmful sexual behaviour having experienced similar behaviours themselves, it is important that the safeguarding and welfare needs of these youth are being met. As part of this project, risk and protective factors will be identified in a systematic literature review on youth who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. Then, a risk and needs assessment tool and a novel coding schedule to code these factors will be developed, which well be tested on case files of a cohort of young people who have sexually harmed. Finally, retrospective access to recidivism data for the cohort of case files will be utilised. The development of a new risk and needs assessment tool will help to avoid under or over-representation of risk, ensure that cases can be appropriately identified and managed with appropriate service provision and bring greater consideration to wider systemic and social factors.By using an existing cohort of case files and accessing Police National Computer data on reoffences in this cohort, the sensitivity and specificity of the tool developed will be established. The CASE partner, G-map services, will be worked with closely to ensure the impact of this work, which will inform assessment and intervention practices, and local and national policy on youth who have sexually harmed. The risk and needs assessment tool will be of direct benefit to the CASE partner and will be made available for use by other professionals working with youth who have sexually harmed. The proposed project will involve reading and coding highly sensitive material from G-map services case files and managing highly sensitive data related to reoffence information regarding the cases.