RT Article
T1 Predicting Women’s Recidivism Using the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-Entry: Preliminary Evidence of Predictive Validity With Community-Sentenced Women Using a “Gender-Neutral” Risk Measure
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 47
IS 3
SP 251
OP 270
A1 Scanlan, Jessica M.
A2 Yesberg, Julia A.
A2 Polaschek, Devon L. L.
A2 Fortune, Clare-Ann
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767166184
AB Although men and women share risk factors for offending, some scholars suggest these factors operate differently across gender and that women-specific risk factors are neglected in existing “gender-neutral” risk assessment tools. This article explored the predictive validity of one gender-neutral risk assessment tool—the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-Entry (DRAOR)—with matched samples of women and men serving community supervision sentences. Total DRAOR scores had comparative predictive validity across gender. For women and men, the DRAOR predicted reconviction over a static risk measure. The findings support the general premise of gender neutrality, but do not necessarily suggest the DRAOR, or gender-neutral tools more broadly, are the best tools for use with women.
K1 DRAOR
K1 Gender
K1 Recidivism
K1 Risk assessment
K1 Women
DO 10.1177/0093854819896387