Women offender assessment : can gender-informed variables improve prediction?: PS83-5/R413E-PDF
"In recent decades, correctional organizations have begun to recognize the differences between factors related to men and women’s involvement in the criminal justice system and their response to interventions and have incorporated this information into the development of treatment approaches for women offenders. Increasingly, gender differences have also been hypothesized to be important in the assessment of risk and needs, with some scholars proposing that there may be factors that are more important for women. The goal of the current study was to examine the feasibility of using existing data from the Correctional Service of Canada’s (CSC) Offender Management System (OMS) to develop a gender-informed risk/need assessment tool"--Why we did this study.
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Correctional Service Canada. Research Branch. |
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| Title | Women offender assessment : can gender-informed variables improve prediction? |
| Series title | Research at a glance ; R-413 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Évaluation des délinquantes : les variables sexospécifiques peuvent-elles améliorer la prédiction? Caption title. Includes bibliographic references. |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Correctional Service Canada = Service correctionnel Canada, February 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (1 page) |
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| Subject terms | Women Inmates |
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