Female offenders and risk assessment: hidden in plain sight
by Davidson, Janet, (Janet T.)
"Davidson draws on both quantitative and qualitative analyses to demonstrate that there are significant contextual differences between the onset and continuation of female and male offending. In turn, this challenges the underlying assumptions of risk and need assessments for female offenders. While her research supports the predictive validity of a commonly uses risk/need instrument (the LSI-R), the results of in-depth interviews with male and female offenders challenge the content validity of…
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- Full title :Female offenders and risk assessment : hidden in plain sight / Janet T. Davidson.
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"Davidson draws on both quantitative and qualitative analyses to demonstrate that there are significant contextual differences between the onset and continuation of female and male offending. In turn, this challenges the underlying assumptions of risk and need assessments for female offenders. While her research supports the predictive validity of a commonly uses risk/need instrument (the LSI-R), the results of in-depth interviews with male and female offenders challenge the content validity of this instrument. Although this instrument appears to be gender-neutral, the veil of objectivity masks the role, especially, of victimization in the lives of female offenders and the manner in which this affects their risks and needs."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2009.
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- Publisher(s):LFB Scholarly Pub
- Place of Publication:El Paso
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 200 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781593323776, 1593323778
- oclc:ocn435421809
- LC Classification:HV6046
- Dewey Decimal:364.3
Table of Contents
Female offenders and management responses -- A brief history of risk management & gender -- Making gender count : measuring the impact of gender in risk & need instruments -- 'Counting' out of context -- 'Counting' in context : exploring risk through a gendered lens -- Re-considering female offenders : context matters.
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