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Classification to halfway houses: a quasi‐experimental evaluation *
James Bonta,Laurence L. Motiuk +1 more
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In this paper, an objective risk classification instrument was administered to inmates from three jails, and low-scoring inmates from two of the jails were flagged for placement in correctional halfway houses, and the third jail was blind to LSI scores.Abstract:
Faced with prison overcrowding, institutions must seek alternatives to imprisonment. An under researched possibility is the use of halfway houses for the placement of offenders serving prison sentences. The LSI, an objective risk classification instrument, was administered to inmates from three jails. Low-scoring inmates from two of the jails were flagged for placement in correctional halfway houses, and the third jail was blind to LSI scores. The halfway house placement rate was 51 % for the jails that used LSI scores and 16% for the jail using traditional subjective classification procedures. The results suggest that subjective offender assessments run the risk of over classifying offenders whereas objective risk assessments yield more appropriate classifications.read more
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A meta‐analysis of the predictors of adult offender recidivism: what works!*
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Women’s Risk Factors and Their Contributions to Existing Risk/Needs Assessment: The Current Status of a Gender-Responsive Supplement
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of gender-responsive assessment models were tested for their contributions to widely used gender-neutral risk needs assessments, and subsets of the genderresponsive scales achieved statistically significant contributions to gender neutral models, including parental stress, family support, self-efficacy, educational assets, housing safety, anger/hostility, and current mental health factors.
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Is the PCL-R Really the “Unparalleled” Measure of Offender Risk?: A Lesson in Knowledge Cumulation
TL;DR: The claim that the PCL-R is the "unparalleled" measure of offender risk prediction is challenged by as mentioned in this paper, who argue that such an assertion reflects an ethnocentric view of research in the area and has led to unsubstantiated claims based on incomplete attempts at knowledge cumulation.
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The Diversion of Incarcerated Offenders to Correctional Halfway Houses
James Bonta,Laurence L. Motiuk +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two studies were undertaken to evaluate an attempt to divert inmates to correctional halfway houses, cross-validate earlier research with the Level of Supervision Inventory (LSI) on a broader offender sample, and explore improved methods of prediction by increased sampling of the criterion variable.
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Utilization of an Interview-Based Classification Instrument A Study of Correctional Halfway Houses
James Bonta,Laurence L. Motiuk +1 more
TL;DR: The reported research tested the validity of a classification instrument, the Level of Supervision Inventory (LSI), with incarcerated offenders placed into halfway houses, and the LSI yielded impressive predictions of both inprogram and postprogram recidivism.