Does gender moderate the predictive utility of the level of service inventoryĝ€"revised (LSI-R) for serious violent offenders?

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 425-442

  Manchak, Sarah M ^a   Skeem, Jennifer L ^a   Douglas, Kevin S ^b   Siranosian, Maro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Female offenders; LSI R; Recidivism; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549098714     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854809333058     Document Type: Article

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