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Predicción de la reincidencia con delincuentes juveniles: adaptación del IGI-J

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[EN] The aim of this study is to determine the usefulness of the Management and Intervention Inventory for Young (IGI-J) in predicting the past recidivism in young offenders, and the implementation of appropriate intervention programs for that population. A retrospective study with a sample of 258 juvenile offenders who were serving a penal measure was performed. The instrument that evaluated the prediction of recidivism is the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (Hoge and Andrews, 2002). Its adaptation to spanish is the IGI-J (Garrido, Lopez and Silva, 2004). The results indicate that the IGI-J correctly identified 66.7% of offenders and 68.8% of non-recidivists, with an alpha value of reliabilityof 0.904. Regarding the retrospective validity, the area under the curve was .717, which can be considered adequate. When comparing only youth people who committed crimes before having been administered the IGI-J with non recidivists; that is, first offenders, it was found that retrospective recidivists had an increased risk in the 8 areas of the instrument with a very high probability of significance (mostly p<0.000). Given its limitations, the IGI-J is a good instrument to predict recidivism among young offenders. Finally, the use of the instrument is discussed to define feasible goals of an intervention program.