Research with the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) and Women

question 12

Multiple Choice

Research with the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) and women offenders has concluded that

• A) the LSI-R, having been developed largely on males, overestimates the risk posed by women offenders
• B) predictive validity can be significantly improved with the addition of "trailers"
• C)the LSI-R is "gender-neutral"
• D) a meta-analysis of the LSI-R and women offenders (Smith, Cullen & Latessa, 2009) found the LSI-R to only marginally predict recidivism
• E) the LSI-R is "gender-specific"

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