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Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 7, 819-831 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854808316642

The Predictive Validity of the Level of Service Inventory—Revised for Drug-Involved Offenders

Christopher E. Kelly

Temple University, cekelly{at}temple.edu

Wayne N. Welsh

Temple University

The Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) has been validated for a variety of criminal justice populations, although one large segment for which the instrument has not been validated is drug-involved offenders. With the increasing implementation of the LSI-R across correctional jurisdictions in the United States and internationally, and with a significant number of offenders having substance abuse histories, validation of the instrument for this population is overdue. Using bivariate correlations and logistic regression analyses, the LSI-R total score was found to be a stable, significant predictor of reincarceration for a sample of 276 drug-involved offenders. This finding held up in multivariate analyses even when controlling for a variety of other factors including age, criminal history, time-at-risk in the community following release from prison, and treatment-related variables.

Key Words: risk prediction • drug-involved offenders • corrections


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