Can psychological assessments that help identify resilient personality traits predict desistence from offending

• developmental pathways to antisocial behaviour/conduct disorder and violence<br />
• Desistence from violence.<br />
• Discussion of Resilience literature and influence on youth violence <br />
• Discussions around the SAVRY and use with young people to predict violence<br />
• Discussion of the resilient personality protective factor within SAVRY and the factors within this, Anecdotally reported as

the factors most difficult to assess/gauge by practitioners (building a rationale).<br />
• Brief overviews of WASI/TCI/Spatial Planning/DGT/STAIC and YPI as assessments of the resilient personality that may be

sought or performed by the practitioners completing SAVRY in order to support assessment.<br />
• Looking at whether factors/assessments of resilient personality traits demonstrate influence on desistance from violent

offending in youth.

With the research question of whether psychological assessments that help identify resilient personality traits can predict

desistence from offending?