@article{b57d429155e7475db62859d4cb8b6f41,
title = "Assessing recidivism risk across female pathways to crime",
abstract = "Actuarial tools, such as the Level of Supervision Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), are regularly used to classify offenders as {"}high,{"} {"}medium,{"} and {"}low{"} recidivism risks. Its supporters argue the theory upon which the LSI-R rests (i.e., social learning theory) accounts for criminal behavior among men and women. In short, the LSI-R is gender-neutral. Feminist criminologists question the LSI-R's validity for female offender populations, especially women under community supervision. Guided by Daly's (1992, 1994) pathways to crime framework, we use a sample of women under community supervision in Minnesota and Oregon to evaluate the LSI-R's performance across offender subgroups. The results show that the LSI-R misclassifies a significant portion of socially and economically marginalized women with gendered offending contexts. Predictive accuracy was observed for women who did not follow gendered pathways into criminality, whose offending context was similar to males, and who occupied a relatively advantaged social location.",
keywords = "Community corrections, LSI-R, Recidivism, Risk, Women offenders",
author = "Reisig, {Michael D.} and Kristy Holtfreter and Merry Morash",
note = "Funding Information: Michael Reisig is an Associate Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. His corrections research has appeared in a variety of journals, including Criminology, Criminology and Public Policy, and Punishment and Society. Kristy Holtfreter is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University where she is also affiliated with the Women{\textquoteright}s Studies program. Her research examines white-collar crime, fraud victimization, and female criminality. Recent articles have appeared in Criminology and Public Policy, Journal of Criminal Justice, and the Journal of Financial Crime. Merry Morash is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Her research projects include programming to meet the needs of women offenders, and domestic violence among different racial and ethnic groups. She has conducted research with funding from the National Institute of Justice, the National Science Foundation, and numerous other sources. Correspondence to: Michael Reisig, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA. E-mail: mreisig@fsu.edu Funding Information: This research was supported by Grant #96-IJ-CX-0021 by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not represent the official position or policies of the US Department of Justice. A previous version of this manuscript was delivered at the Societies of Criminology 1st Key Issues Conference, Paris, France, in May 2004.",
year = "2006",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/07418820600869152",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "23",
pages = "384--405",
journal = "Justice Quarterly",
issn = "0741-8825",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "3",
}