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Offender Risk Assessment in Virginia: A Three-Stage Evaluation: Process of Sentencing Reform, Empirical Study of Diversion and Recidivism, [and] Benefit-Cost Analysis
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Offender Risk Assessment in Virginia: A Three-Stage Evaluation: Process of Sentencing Reform, Empirical Study of Diversion and Recidivism, [and] Benefit-Cost Analysis
Publication year:
2002
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Results of an investigation on whether "risk assessment at the sentencing state [is] a viable strategy for diverting nonviolent offenders" are presented (p. 1). This report contains the following sections: executive summary; introduction; risk assessment basics -- the Virginia Model; designing the instrument -- Virginia's approach to nonviolent offender risk assessment; using the instrument -- descriptive results from the pilot study; diversion and recidivism in the context of risk assessment; the benefits and costs of diversion for nonviolent offenders; and epilogue. Appendixes provide: an essay on offender tracking and data collection; information on how a risk assessment instrument can improve one's ability to predict recidivism; recidivist events occurring during the diversion period; and a copy of the risk assessment form.