PSRAC
An Exemplar-Based Approach to Risk Assessment: Validating the Risk Management Systems Instrument
Uses a sample of people on supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office to explore the relationship between RMS scores and recidivism.
Are the Major Risk/Need Factors Predictive of Both Female and Male Reoffending? A Test With the Eight Domains of the Level of Service/Case Management Inventory
Assesses the gender neutrality of the LS/CMI and explores the relative contributions of risk level, gender, and their interaction to the prediction of recidivism.
Assessing Dynamic Risk and Protective Factors in the Community: Examining the Validity of the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-entry (DRAOR)
Tests the validity of the DRAOR and suggests an alteration to the subscale structure of the tool.
Cross-Validation of the Risk Matrix 2000 Sexual and Violent Scales
Cross validates the accuracy of the RMS and RMV compared with the Static-99 and SVR-20 and demonstrates support for the use of RMS and RMV as risk-assessment measures in predicting sexual and nonsexual violent reconvictions.
Cross-Validation of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ): An Offender Risk and Need Assessment Measure on Australian, British, Canadian, Singaporean, and American Offenders
Supports the validity of the SAQ on populations of different races, from different cultures, and convicted of different offenses, and contradicts concerns that the SAQ is susceptible to lying and self-presentation biases.
Development of the California Static Risk Assessment Instrument (CSRA)
Describes the creation, development, and validation of the CSRA.
Dynamic Risk Assessment in Sexual Offenders Using STABLE-2000 and the STABLE-2007: An Investigation of Predictive and Incremental Validity
Examines the predictive accuracy of the German versions of the STABLE-2000 and STABLE-2007 and demonstrates the moderate to good predictive ability of the STABLE-2007 even—in some cases—after controlling for static risk variables.
Empirically Examining the Risk of Intimate Partner Violence: The Revised Domestic Violence Screening Instrument (DVSI-R)
Demonstrates the concurrent and predictive validity of the DVSI-R and tests whether the levels of validity are sustained independent of demographics and forms of intimate violence.
Evaluating the Predictive Validity of the COMPAS Risk and Needs Assessment System
Examines the reliability and predictive validity of the COMPAS and concludes that the tool demonstrates a predictive power comparable to (and sometimes higher than) similar instruments in the field.
Incorporating Strengths into Quantitative Assessments of Criminal Risk for Adult Offenders
Demonstrates the value of integrating strengths into risk assessment tools by comparing the utility of the SPIn Pre-Screen’s aggregate risk and strength scores in predicting recidivism.