Abstract

Background and Objectives: The inventories of criminogenic risks evaluation based on evidence prove to be a big support to determine the priority objectives in the interventions and prevent the recidivism in adolescent law infringers. This investigation permits to advance in the validation of risks evaluation instruments in adolescent infringers in Latin-American context. The validity evidences are studied for the adapted version for Chile, of the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory YLS/CMI. Ç Method: By means of an incidental sampling it is obtained a sample of 129 male adolescents (14 to 19 years old) serving a sanction by the criminal responsibility law. Results and conclusions: The adapted YLS/CMI shows adequate levels of reliability and validity in the studied sample. Only the factor of education and employment does not reach the acceptable alpha (Alpha: .51). The evidences of convergent and discriminant validity of the YLS/CMI are satisfactory, being the factor of free time which discriminates the least between recidivists and nonrecidivists by means of retrospective analysis. The study advance in the dissertation of the adaptation and validation of the YLS/CMI to evaluate the criminogenic risks in Chilean adolescent law infringers.