The level of service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R): A useful risk assessment measure for Australian offenders?

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 728-740

  Hsu, Ching I ^a   Caputi, Peter ^a   Byrne, Mitchell K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian offenders; Criminogenic needs; LSI R; Normative statistics; Reoffending; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650323691     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854809335409     Document Type: Article

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