@article{ref1,
title="Women’s Risk Factors and Their Contributions to Existing Risk/Needs Assessment",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2010",
author="Van Voorhis, Patricia and Wright, Emily M. and Salisbury, Emily and Bauman, Ashley",
volume="37",
number="3",
pages="261-288",
abstract="A growing body of scholarship faults existing risk/needs assessment models for neglecting the risk factors most relevant to women offenders. In response, a series of gender-responsive assessment models were tested for their contributions to widely used gender-neutral risk needs assessments. In six of eight samples studied, subsets of the gender-responsive scales achieved statistically significant contributions to gender-neutral models. Promising results were found for the following: (a) parental stress, family support, self-efficacy, educational assets, housing safety, anger/hostility, and current mental health factors in probation samples; (b) child abuse, anger/hostility, relationship dysfunction, family support, and current mental health factors among prisoners; and (c) adult victimization, anger/hostility, educational assets, and family support among released inmates. The predictive validity of gender-neutral assessments was strong in seven of eight samples studied. However, findings for both gender-neutral and gender-responsive domains suggested different treatment priorities for women from those currently put forward in correctional theory and policy.<p />",
language="",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854809357442",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854809357442"
}