Comparability of the Standard and Interview Versions of the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
- Vol. 33 (1) , 49-58
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624x8903300106
Abstract
An interview schedule was developed for use with the Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF). Results achieved through use of this interview procedure were compared with findings obtained by means of the standard version (i.e., records review) of the LCSF. Subjects were 35 successively sampled maximum security prison inmates in the process of completing an admissions and orientation program as part of their induction into the general inmate population at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth. The standard and interview versions of the LCSF were found to correspond modestly when LCSF diagnosis and several individual items were considered; moderately when the majority of individual items and section scores were examined; and moderately high in the case of one individual item (confining offense), one section score (interpersonal intrusiveness) and the total LCSF score.Keywords
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