Recidivism risk assessment for Aboriginal males : a brief review of the scientific literature

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1 electronic text (v, 34 pages).
Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario : Correctional Service of Canada, 2011.
Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

General Note:	"March 2011." Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-34).
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- Recidivism risk assessment for Aboriginal males -- Aboriginal offenders -- The frequency of violent recidivism -- The risk assessment process -- Three generations of risk assessment -- Actuarial risk prediction and the "car insurance" example -- Risk factors that reliably predict for all offenders -- Dynamic risk prediction -- Risk assessment in other indigenous populations -- Risk instruments that reliably predict for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders -- Level of supervision inventory and subsequent revisions -- Statistical information on recidivism (SIR) scale -- Dynamic factor and identification analysis (DFIA) -- Manitoba risk needs scale -- STATIC-99 -- A contrary finding -- VRAG, SVR-20 and STATIC-99 -- If we choose not to use actuarial tools with offenders from different cultural groups, how should we assess risk? -- Responding to cultural differences: responsivity -- Summary -- References.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.