Offender Risk Assessment and Typology.

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Almost all correctional settings, institutional or community-based, rely on offender assessment to guide practices with offenders. This class will provide a hands-on approach to conducting numerous actuarial risk assessments commonly used in correctional practice, such as the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R). Students will learn what actuarial risk assessments are, how validation of assessments are completed, and the barriers of offender typology in actuarial risk assessments (i.e., sexual offenders, female offenders, violent offenders). Prerequisite: CJ 201 .