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2 results foundAuthor: Prince, Kort Title: Recidivism Risk Prediction and Prevention Assessment in Utah: An Implementation Evaluation of the LSI-R as a Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool in Utah Summary: This document is divided into two major sections. The first covers recidivism risk and needs assessment, while the second describes an implementation evaluation of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), which has been used in Utah since 2000 as a risk and needs assessment. Section one describes the need for accurate, valid risk and needs assessments, and provides a literature review of the most well-known, validated and commonly used instruments as well as a review of tools that are relatively new but show promise. In the literature, the LSI-R remains the dominant risk and needs assessment tool, but other instruments in the third- and fourth-generation of risk and needs assessment tools (see below for generation definitions) have become increasingly more common. The LSI-R has, in some cases, been replaced by its successor, the Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI). Other instruments show similar validity, but also have the added benefit of being easier to use (such as self-administered assessments). The second major section was originally intended to validate the LSI-R in Utah's population and within demographic subgroups (i.e., race, ethnicity and sex). It was also intended that the research would examine whether Utah's potential adoption of the newer and broader LS/CMI, would improve, reduce or simply maintain the current tool's ability to predict recidivism. While the issue of validation within Utah will remain an important area of future research, preliminary analyses of LSI-R data provided to UCJC revealed problems that precluded a fair and accurate assessment of the validity of either instrument. Problems included both data quality issues (i.e., invalid tests due to too many missing items, total scores that did not match the sum of item-level responses, prohibited combinations of item-level responses) and administrative issues (i.e., inadequate training of administrators, inherent difficulties in using the LSI-R, and ambiguities on the LSI-R response form). Rather than using inaccurate data in attempting to validate the instrument(s) for use as recidivism risk prediction tool(s) in Utah, the present research necessarily altered focus to examine the extent of the problems. The present research also discusses evidence suggesting that the LSI-R tool, and its inherent difficulties in administration, may have contributed to some of the observed problems. Changes that have already been made and changes that could be adopted to improve the accuracy and fidelity of LSI-R assessments, are discussed. Details: Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Criminal Justice Center, University of Utah, 2013. 37p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 15, 2014 at: http://ucjc.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/LSI-Implementation-Report-final.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://ucjc.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/LSI-Implementation-Report-final.pdf Shelf Number: 132356 Keywords: RecidivismRisk Assessment (Utah) |
Author: Prince, Kort Title: Brief Report: An Implementation Evaluation of the LSI-R as a Recidivism Risk Assessment Tool in Utah Summary: This document is a summary report of a larger evaluation of the implementation of the LSI-R in Utah. Many of the details of the full document have been omitted in order to provide a succinct version of the evaluation that will be easily disseminated. Though omitted from this brief report, the full evaluation provides a literature review detailing the history of assessment instruments, the evolution of the LSI, and competing tools. It also contains considerably more detail on findings and data caveats. The reader is encouraged to view the full report at: http://ucjc.utah.edu/adult-offenders/evaluation-of-the-lsi-r-as-a-riskassessment-tool-in-utah. The research project began with an original goal of examining, validating and comparing the predictive validity of the LSI-R (Level of Service Inventory-Revised; Andrews & Bonta, 1995) and the LS/CMI (Level of Service-Case Management Inventory; a shorter assessment that can be calculated using the items from the LSI-R; Andrews, Bonta, & Wormith, 2004) as recidivism assessment tools in the Utah population. However, preliminary analyses of data provided to the Utah Criminal Justice Center (UCJC) by the Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) revealed problems at the data collection level that precluded an accurate test of the tools’ respective predictive validities. Rather than using inaccurate data in attempting to validate the instruments for use as recidivism risk prediction tools in Utah, the present research necessarily altered focus to examine the extent of the data collection problems resulting from software-level issues. Evaluation of the LS/CMI was, therefore, jettisoned, and the research focused instead on identifying and describing the data problems. The present research also discusses evidence suggesting that the LSI-R tool, and its inherent difficulties in administration, may have contributed to item-level, total-score and risk calculation discrepancies noted below. Details: Salt Lake City: University of Utah, Utah Criminal Justice Center, 2014. 8p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 14, 2016 at: http://ucjc.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/LSI-R-Summary-Report-Final-v2.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://ucjc.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/LSI-R-Summary-Report-Final-v2.pdf Shelf Number: 141144 Keywords: Recidivism Risk Assessment (Utah) |