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Reliability and Validity of the LSI-R for the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole

The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) contracted The Institute on Crime, Justice and Corrections (ICJC) at The George Washington University to conduct a reliability and validation study using the LSI-R scores and recidivism data. The following report summarizes the ICJC’s findings.

Available online

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/

Author(s)

James Austin, Dana Coleman, Johnette Peyton, and Kelly Dedel Johnson

Date

January 2003

State

Pennsylvania

Publisher

The Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole