Validity of the Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) Among African American and Hispanic Male Offenders

Autor:	David J. Simourd, Melinda D. Schlager
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Predictive validity Psychometrics business.industry Ethnic group Poison control Context (language use) Sample (statistics) Test validity Pathology and Forensic Medicine Medicine business Risk assessment Law Social psychology General Psychology Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Criminal Justice and Behavior. 34:545-554
ISSN:	1552-3594 0093-8548
DOI:	10.1177/0093854806296039
Popis:	The Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) is a dynamic risk/needs assessment instrument that has been used extensively among a variety of offender samples. Validity research on the LSI-R, however, is based on samples consisting predominantly of Caucasian participants. The present study sought to examine the psychometric properties and validity of the instrument among a sample of African American and Hispanic male offenders. Participants were 446 male parolees residing in three halfway houses and one day reporting center. Three hundred and thirty-four offenders (75% of the sample) were of African American heritage and 112 (25%) were of Hispanic heritage. Analyses of the psychometric properties and validity of the LSI-R were conducted separately for each ethnic group. Results indicated the instrument had acceptable psychometric properties, but that the predictive validity results were lower than previous studies on the LSI-R. Results are discussed within the context of the invariance of risk variables and the applicability of the LSI-R to various offender groups.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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