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Applying Risk/Need Assessment to Probation Practice and its Impact on the Recidivism of Young Offenders:
Duyen Luong,J. Stephen Wormith +1 more
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In this paper, the authors investigated whether risk/need assessment is linked to the case management of young offenders and whether adherence to the principles of risk, need, and responsivity, as part of a case management plan, is related to recidivism.Abstract:
Evaluating the extent to which case management practices are guided by risk/need assessment is important because the impact of the assessment process will not be realized if the instrument is not applied as fully intended. This study investigated whether risk/need assessment is linked to the case management of young offenders and whether adherence to the principles of risk, need, and responsivity, as part of the case management plan, is related to recidivism. Data were collected on a sample of 192 young offenders. The Level of Service Inventory–Saskatchewan Youth Edition (LSI-SK) total score and seven of the eight subscale scores were positively correlated with recidivism. Generally, the LSI-SK was used to inform supervision intensity and interventions toward criminogenic needs. Moreover, adherence to the need principle was associated with reductions in recidivism. Implications for case management and direction for future research are discussed.read more
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Thirty years of research on the level of service scales: a meta-analytic examination of predictive accuracy and sources of variability.
TL;DR: A comprehensive meta-analysis of the Level of Service scales, their predictive accuracy and group-based differences in risk/need, across 128 studies comprising 151 independent samples and a total of 137,931 offenders indicated that gender and ethnicity were not substantive sources of effect size variability.
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The Interrelatedness of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among High-Risk Juvenile Offenders:
Michael T. Baglivio,Nathan Epps +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the interrelatedness of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in 64,329 juvenile offenders was examined, including childhood abuse, emotional, and sexual, neglect, physical and emotion.
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Practitioner Compliance With Risk/Needs Assessment Tools: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment
Joel Miller,Carrie Maloney +1 more
TL;DR: Multivariate analysis suggests that practitioners’ belief in risk/needs tools, agency monitoring and training, perceptions of agency procedural justice, and agencies’ projected confidence in their local risk/need tool may help explain patterns of compliance and noncompliance.
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Short and long-term prediction of recidivism using the youth level of service/case management inventory in a sample of serious young offenders.
TL;DR: P predictive accuracy of the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) for youth and adult recidivism in a Canadian sample of 167 youths charged with serious offenses who received psychological services from a community mental health outpatient clinic is examined.
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Misalignment in Supervision: Implementing Risk/Needs Assessment Instruments in Probation
TL;DR: Risk and needs assessment (RNA) tools are well regarded as a critical component of a community corrections organization implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs), given the potential impact of u...
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