Examining the Predictive Validity of the Public Safety Assessment

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive validity of the Public Safety Assessment (PSA), an actuarial pretrial assessment instrument, administered to 15,931 individuals in Volusia County, Florida, between 2016 and 2017. A series of logistic regression models analyzed the influence of...

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Authors: Brittain, Brian J. (Author) ; Georges, Leah (Author) ; Martin, Jim (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Criminal justice and behavior
Year: 2021, Volume: 48, Issue: 10, Pages: 1431-1449
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Public Safety Assessment
Pretrial risk assessment
actuarial risk assessment