The Level of Service Inventory (Ontario Revision) scale validation for gender and ethnicity : addressing reliability and predictive validity
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wormith, J. Stephen | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Farthing, Gerald R. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Olver, Mark | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Lawson, Karen | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Woods, Phil | en_US |
| dc.creator | Hogg, Sarah Marie | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-11T08:56:08Z | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-04T04:28:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-04-14T08:00:00Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-04T04:28:38Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2011-04 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-04 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | April 2011 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Previous investigations of the Level of Service Inventory – Ontario Revision (LSI-OR) have examined individual subgroups of offenders (e.g., women, Aboriginal offenders), which has made comparisons of its predictive validity between specific offender groups suspect. This study was conducted on a complete cohort of 26,450 offenders who were released from Ontario provincial correctional facilities, sentenced to a conditional sentence, or who began a term of probation in 2004. Participants were followed up for at least four years to collect recidivism information on numerous subgroups of offenders including males (81.7%), females (18.3%), Aboriginal (6.4%), Black (7.3%) and Caucasian offenders (59.2%). Analyses revealed that the LSI-OR scores are positively correlated with recidivism (r = .441, p < .001), and similar correlations were found for all offenders regardless of gender or race, (Aboriginal r = .377, p < .001; Black, r = .420, p < .001; Caucasian, r = .417, p < .001; Male, r = .439, p < .001; Female, r = .426, p < .001). LSI-OR scores are also correlated with severity of the recidivism offence, (r = .098, p | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-04112011-085608 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Risk Assessment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ethnicity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Crime | en_US |
| dc.subject | Scale Validation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Level of Service Inventory | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gender | en_US |
| dc.title | The Level of Service Inventory (Ontario Revision) scale validation for gender and ethnicity : addressing reliability and predictive validity | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type.material | text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Psychology | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Psychology | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (M.A.) | en_US |