TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Women’s Risk Factors and Their Contributions to Existing Risk/Needs Assessment
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Van Voorhis, Patricia
A1  - Wright, Emily M.
A1  - Salisbury, Emily
A1  - Bauman, Ashley
SP  - 261
EP  - 288
VL  - 37
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854809357442
ID  - ref1
ER  -