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Risk and Need Assessment in Probation Services: An Evaluation
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The effectiveness of two assessment instruments -- Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) and Assessment Case Management and Evaluation (ACE) -- used by probation services in England and Wales is reported. Sections of this study include: executive summary; introduction; the origins and development of the two instruments; the study and the samples; risk prediction, risk factors, and reconviction; reliability and disclosure effects; risk-related change management; further development in the instruments; and conclusion -- the feasibility and prospects of risk/need assessment in the Probation Service.