Discriminative and predictive validity of risk assessment measures for women incarcerated for serious violent offences in Australia.

Autor: Papalia, Nina, Simmons, Melanie, Ruffles, Janet, Spivak, Benjamin, Dunne, Ashley, Fullam, Rachael, Ogloff, James R. P.
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Zdroj: Psychiatry, Psychology & Law; Oct2024, Vol. 31 Issue 5, p963-985, 23p
Abstrakt: Despite the growing population of women in Australian prisons, limited research has explored whether commonly used risk assessments – predominantly developed and tested on men – are valid for women. We investigated the discriminative and predictive validity of the Level of Service Inventory–Revised: Screening Version (LSI-R:SV), Level of Service/Risk, Need, Responsivity (LS/RNR), and the Historical, Clinical, Risk Management 20–Version 3 (HCR-20v3) for Victorian women imprisoned for serious violence (N = 79). The LS/RNR was related to any, violent, and non-violent recidivism, and both the LSI-R:SV and the H-Scale of the HCR-20v3 were related to violent recidivism, with the H-Scale demonstrating strong predictive validity for violence. Four LS/RNR needs domains demonstrated discriminative and predictive validity for any and/or violent recidivism (criminal history, family/marital, alcohol/drug problem, antisocial pattern). Findings are locally significant, showing that the LS/RNR and HCR-20v3 H-Scale are useful for the prediction and discrimination of recidivism for Australian women incarcerated for serious violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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