Journal article
The LSI-R and the Compas: Validation Data on Two Risk-Needs Tools
Criminal justice and behavior, v 35(9), pp 1095-1108
Sep 2008
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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 Inventory—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, known-groups 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
- Creators
- Tracy L Fass - Drexel University and Villanova Law SchoolKirk Heilbrun - Drexel UniversityDavid DeMatteo - Drexel UniversityRalph Fretz - Community Education Centers, Inc
- Publication Details
- Criminal justice and behavior, v 35(9), pp 1095-1108
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications; Los Angeles, CA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000258392800001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-49149092296
- Other Identifier
- 991014878646204721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Criminology & Penology
- Psychology, Clinical