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- Title
CLASSIFICATION TO HALFWAY HOUSES: QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION.
- Authors
Bonta, James; Motiuk, Laurence L.
- Abstract
Faced with prison overcrowding, institutions must seek alternatives to imprisonment. An under researched possibility is the use of halfway houses for the placement of offenders serving prison sentences. The LSI, an objective risk classification instrument, was administered to inmates from three jails. Low-scoring in mates from two of the jails were flagged for placement in correctional halfway houses, and the third jail was blind to LSI scores. The halfway house placement rate was 51 % for the jails that used LSI scores and 16% for the jail using traditional subjective classification procedures. The results suggest that subjective offender assessments run the risk of overclassifying offenders whereas objective risk assessments yield more appropriate classifications.
- Subjects
PRISON overcrowding; ALTERNATIVES to imprisonment; HALFWAY houses; COMMUNITY-based corrections; CORRECTIONAL institutions; PRISON sentences
- Publication
Criminology, 1990, Vol 28, Issue 3, p497
- ISSN
0011-1384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1990.tb01336.x