Journal article
The LSI-R And The Compas: Validation Data On Two Risk-Needs Tools
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol.35, pp.1095-1108
Sep 2009
Abstract
Over the past two decades, the role of risk-needs assessment in the criminal justice system has increased substantially. This study provides validation data on the Level of Service Inventoryâ€"Revised (LSI-R) and the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) using a large male cohort (N = 975) with a substantial proportion of ethnic minority offenders. In comparing the predictive validity of these tools, the authors employed a retrospective, archival, knowngroups design to study outcomes of offenders released into the community from New Jersey prisons between 1999 and 2002, with a postrelease outcome period of 12 months. The results indicate that both the LSI-R composite score and the COMPAS recidivism score have inconsistent validity when tested on different ethnic/racial populations. Furthermore, the results suggest that different ethnic/racial groups have varying risk and needs factors that predict recidivism
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- Title
- The LSI-R And The Compas: Validation Data On Two Risk-Needs Tools
- Creators
- Tracy L FassKirk HeilbrunDavid DematteoRalph Fretz
- Publication Details
- Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol.35, pp.1095-1108
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Identifiers
- 991019203759304721