Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, Vol 12(4), Dec 2025, 231-254; doi:10.1037/tam0000247
We present a multiple case study analysis and an examination of methods for reassessing risk for violence across three timepoints. Using archival data, risk for violence was assessed among two adolescents charged with a violent offense using the Violence Risk Scale–Youth Version and Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version, with each measure demonstrating an approach to the clinical assessment of change in risk. The stages of change method were represented by the Violence Risk Scale–Youth Version, and a newly developed structured professional judgment framework for rating and formulating change in risk (described herein as the Change in Violence Risk Protocol) was applied to the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version. Although the findings of our case study illustrate the capacity for each method/tool to detect change in dynamic factors across the follow-up periods, several meaningful differences emerged. In addition to highlighting challenges in study design and clinical application of the risk assessment measures, we discuss the implications concerning the reassessment of violence risk among adolescents and provide recommendations for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)