Citation

Kingston WL, Mactavish A, Loza-Fanous A. J. Interpers. Violence 2007; 22(9): 1144-1155.

Affiliation

Penitentiary and Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, WML@post .queensu.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260507303730

PMID

17704460

Abstract

The effectiveness of the Self-Appraisal Questionnaire (SAQ) in providing estimates for predicting violent and nonviolent recidivism over a 9-year period is examined. The SAQ is a quantitative risk/need instrument consisting of 72 items that compose eight subscales. There were 657 federally sentenced Canadian male offenders who completed the SAQ prior to their release and were followed up for 9 years (108 months) at 4-month intervals. Consistent with previous predictive studies, the results presented here demonstrate that the SAQ has adequate predictive validity.

Language: en