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        The Level of Service Inventory (Ontario Revision) scale validation for gender and ethnicity : addressing reliability and predictive validity

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        Date
        2011-04
        Author
        Hogg, Sarah Marie
        Type
        Thesis
        Degree Level
        Masters
        Abstract
        Previous investigations of the Level of Service Inventory – Ontario Revision (LSI-OR) have examined individual subgroups of offenders (e.g., women, Aboriginal offenders), which has made comparisons of its predictive validity between specific offender groups suspect. This study was conducted on a complete cohort of 26,450 offenders who were released from Ontario provincial correctional facilities, sentenced to a conditional sentence, or who began a term of probation in 2004. Participants were followed up for at least four years to collect recidivism information on numerous subgroups of offenders including males (81.7%), females (18.3%), Aboriginal (6.4%), Black (7.3%) and Caucasian offenders (59.2%). Analyses revealed that the LSI-OR scores are positively correlated with recidivism (r = .441, p < .001), and similar correlations were found for all offenders regardless of gender or race, (Aboriginal r = .377, p < .001; Black, r = .420, p < .001; Caucasian, r = .417, p < .001; Male, r = .439, p < .001; Female, r = .426, p < .001). LSI-OR scores are also correlated with severity of the recidivism offence, (r = .098, p
        Degree
        Master of Arts (M.A.)
        Department
        Psychology
        Program
        Psychology
        Supervisor
        Wormith, J. Stephen
        Committee
        Farthing, Gerald R.; Olver, Mark; Lawson, Karen; Woods, Phil
        Copyright Date
        April 2011
        URI
        http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-04112011-085608
        Subject
        Risk Assessment
        Ethnicity
        Crime
        Scale Validation
        Level of Service Inventory
        Gender
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