Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Predictive Validity of the Level of Service Inventory–Revised Among Prison Inmates

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 286-303

  Chenane, Joselyne L ^a   Brennan, Pauline K ^a   Steiner, Benjamin ^a   Ellison, Jared M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

inmates; LSI R; predictive validity; prison misconduct; race ethnicity; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922768936     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854814548195     Document Type: Article

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