The level of service inventory-revised (LSI-R) and Australian offenders: Factor structure, sensitivity, and specificity

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 600-618

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian offenders; binary factor analysis; Indigenous offenders; Level of Service Inventory Revised (LSI R); reoffending; sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955792240     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854811402583     Document Type: Article

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