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Validation of Risk/Needs Assessments in the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections: Final Report -- Grant 1S288
Publication year:
2006
| Cataloged on:
May. 24, 2007
ANNOTATION: The psychometric properties, reliability, and validity of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), Criminal Sentiments Scale-Modified (CSS-M), and the Hostile Interpretations Questionnaire (HIQ) are evaluated. Sections of this paper in addition to an executive summary are: introduction; LSI-R validation; CSS-M validation; HIQ validation; and general summary. "Overall, the results of this project indicate the psychometric properties of the three main PADOC [Pennsylvania Department of Corrections] assessment instruments have structural integrity and are comparable to available normative data" (p. iv).