Abstract

The purpose of this study was three-fold: determine whether scores on the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF), a recidivism and re-offense risk assessment procedure, predict future criminal and drug use outcomes in substance abusing parolees, verify whether LCSF-defined risk identifies parolees likely to benefit from a case management strengths program, and ascertain whether the LCSF is as effective with women as it is with men. These three topic areas (use of the LCSF with substance abusing offenders, testing the risk principle, and seeing whether the LCSF applies to women) represent gaps in the current state of knowledge on the LCSF. In a secondary analysis of data including 811 (616 men, 195 women) substance-abusing adult parolees, results revealed that the LCSF was the only variable, out of six, to predict all six outcomes of interest across 3- and 9-month follow-up periods. When the sample was broken down by gender, the LCSF predicted all six outcomes in men but only the three 9-month outcomes in women. In an unanticipated development, men exposed to a case management strengths program reported more subsequent crime and drug use than participants not exposed to this special case management program.

摘要

本研究的目的有三重：确定生活方式犯罪筛查表 (LCSF) 的分数是否是累犯和再犯风险评估程序，预测滥用假释者的未来犯罪和吸毒结果，验证 LCSF 是否定义风险识别可能从案件管理优势计划中受益的假释者，并确定 LCSF 对女性是否与对男性一样有效。这三个主题领域（将 LCSF 用于药物滥用罪犯、测试风险原则以及查看 LCSF 是否适用于女性）代表了 LCSF 当前知识状态的差距。在对包括 811 名（616 名男性，195 名女性）滥用药物的成年假释犯的数据进行的二次分析中，结果显示 LCSF 是唯一的变量，在六人中，在 3 个月和 9 个月的随访期间预测所有六项感兴趣的结果。当样本按性别细分时，LCSF 预测了男性的所有六项结果，但仅预测了女性 9 个月的三个结果。在意料之外的发展中，与未参与此特殊案例管理计划的参与者相比，参与案例管理优势计划的男性报告了更多的后续犯罪和吸毒。