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This version was published on April 1, 2007
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 34, No. 4, 545-554 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854806296039
© 2007 International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology

Validity of the Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) Among African American and Hispanic Male Offenders

Melinda D. Schlager

Department of Criminology and criminal justice, University of Texas at Arlington, mschlager{at}uta.edu

David J. Simourd

Volunteers of America Delaware Valley, Collingswood, New Jersey

The Level of Service Inventory—Revised (LSI-R) is a dynamic risk/needs assessment instrument that has been used extensively among a variety of offender samples. Validity research on the LSI-R, however, is based on samples consisting predominantly of Caucasian participants. The present study sought to examine the psychometric properties and validity of the instrument among a sample of African American and Hispanic male offenders. Participants were 446 male parolees residing in three halfway houses and one day reporting center. Three hundred and thirty-four offenders (75% of the sample) were of African American heritage and 112 (25%) were of Hispanic heritage. Analyses of the psychometric properties and validity of the LSI-R were conducted separately for each ethnic group. Results indicated the instrument had acceptable psychometric properties, but that the predictive validity results were lower than previous studies on the LSI-R. Results are discussed within the context of the invariance of risk variables and the applicability of the LSI-R to various offender groups.

Key Words: LSI-R • risk/needs assessment • community corrections • African American offenders • Hispanic offenders


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