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Development and Field-Test of a Gender-Informed Security Reclassification Scale for Women Offenders
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The use of an actuarial method for female offender reclassification is explained. In addition to an executive summary, this report contains the following sections: introduction; method; results according to descriptive/offense information for sample, security level pre- and post-review, Security Reclassification Scale for Women (SRSW) -- descriptive statistics, SRSW concordance with OSL (Offender Security Level) decisions, convergent validity, institutional misconduct, and release outcome; and discussion (e.g., overview, internal consistency, concurrent, convergent, and predictive validity, the prison environment and labels, study limitations and directions for future research, and conclusions. "Within a fixed three-month follow-up, the SRSW was significantly more predictive of minor institutional misconduct than the structured clinical method (OSL) currently in use" (p. iii).