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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