Search Results - "Lowenkamp, Christopher T"

RISK, RACE, AND RECIDIVISM: PREDICTIVE BIAS AND DISPARATE IMPACT by SKEEM, JENNIFER L., LOWENKAMP, CHRISTOPHER T.

“…One way to unwind mass incarceration without compromising public safety is to use risk assessment instruments in sentencing and corrections. Although these…”
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Predicting Recidivism With the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) in Community-Supervised Male and Female Federal Offenders by Walters, Glenn D., Lowenkamp, Christopher T.

“…Higher order scores derived from the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS; Walters, 1995) have been found to predict recidivism in…”
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Revalidation of the Federal PTRA: Testing the PTRA for Predictive Biases by Cohen, Thomas H., Lowenkamp, Christopher T.

“…The pretrial risk assessment instrument (PTRA) was developed for use in the U.S. federal pretrial system. Specifically, this instrument was constructed to help…”
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Predicting outcome with the Level of Service Inventory-Revised: The importance of implementation integrity by Flores, Anthony W., Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Holsinger, Alexander M., Latessa, Edward J.

“…Correctional agencies face increasing pressure to provide more services for increasing caseloads with fewer resources. The Level of Service Inventory-Revised…”
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Risk Assessment Overrides: Shuffling the Risk Deck Without Any Improvements in Prediction by Cohen, Thomas H., Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Bechtel, Kristin, Flores, Anthony W.

“…In the federal supervision system, officers have discretion to depart from the risk designations provided by the Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA)…”
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Do Office Reviews in the Federal Probation and Pretrial Services System Do What They Were Intended to Do? Not Yet by Lowenkamp, Christopher T, Pratt, Travis C, Holsinger, Alexander M

“…The team reviews district practices and measures those practices against nearly 200 benchmarks included in the office review instrument.2 While the office…”
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Application of the Risk Principle to Female Offenders by Brusman Lovins, Lori, Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Latessa, Edward J., Smith, Paula

“…Previous research has supported the significance of the principles of effective intervention in correctional treatment. The risk principle suggests that…”
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Is Pretrial Detention an Effective Deterrent? An Analysis of Failure to Appear and Rearrest Says No by Holsinger, Alexander M, Lowenkamp, Christopher T, Pratt, Travis C

“…In the most recent comprehensive assessment of this idea, Petrich et al.'s (2021) meta-analysis of over 100 studies on the effects of custodial versus…”
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The Effect of Pretrial Detention on Sentencing in Two Federal Districts by Oleson, J.C., Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Cadigan, Timothy P., VanNostrand, Marie, Wooldredge, John

“…While a substantial body of research indicates that legal variables, such as offense severity and criminal history, principally shape sentencing decisions,…”
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False Positives, False Negatives, and False Analyses: A Rejoinder to "Machine Bias: There's Software Used Across the Country to Predict Future Criminals. And It's Biased Against Blacks" by Flores, Anthony W, Bechtel, Kristin, Lowenkamp, Christopher T

“…Marco and Larkin, 2000, p. 692 PROPUBLICA RECENTLY RELEASED a much-heralded investigative report claiming that a risk assessment tool (known as the COMPAS)…”
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A Meta-Analytic Review of Pretrial Research: Risk Assessment, Bond Type, and Interventions by Bechtel, Kristin, Holsinger, Alexander M., Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Warren, Madeline J.

“…This study makes an attempt to aggregate what we currently know about pretrial decision making and jurisdictions’ responses to the pretrial population. This…”
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Dosage is more than just counting program hours: The importance of role-playing in treatment outcomes by Sperber, Kimberly Gentry, Lowenkamp, Christopher T.

“…The risk principle directs correctional practitioners to provide greater amounts of correctional treatment to higher-risk offenders, while the responsivity…”
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PCRA Revisited: Testing the Validity of the Federal Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA) by Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Holsinger, Alexander M., Cohen, Thomas H.

“…The Post Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA) was developed for use in the U.S. Probation System in 2009. Although previous publications have demonstrated the…”
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Ethnicity, gender, and the Level of Service Inventory-Revised by Holsinger, Alexander M, Lowenkamp, Christopher T, Latessa, Edward J

“…Offender assessment and classification is becoming an increasingly important part of correctional supervision and intervention. Over the last several decades,…”
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Evidence for Risk Estimate Precision: Implications for Individual Risk Communication by Harris, Grant T., Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Hilton, N. Zoe

“…Actuarial risk assessment instruments using well‐established predictor variables measured at the individual level (e.g., age, criminal history, psychopathy)…”
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The Risk Principle in Action: What Have We Learned From 13,676 Offenders and 97 Correctional Programs? by Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Latessa, Edward J., Holsinger, Alexander M.

“…Over the recent past there have been several meta-analyses and primary studies that support the importance of the risk principle. Oftentimes these studies,…”
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Assessing the Effects of Court Date Notifications within Pretrial Case Processing by Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Holsinger, Alexander M., Dierks, Tim

“…Jurisdictions at every level throughout the U.S. are paying an increasing amount of attention to pretrial case processing. The primary areas of attention…”
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Revalidating the Federal Pretrial Risk Assessment Instrument (PTRA): A Research Summary by Cohen, Thomas H, Lowenkamp, Christopher T, Hicks, William E

“…[...]this report will briefly address the PTRA's capacity to predict pretrial violations across racial and ethnic groups and for males and females. [...]the…”
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Applying the Risk Principle to Sex Offenders: Can Treatment Make Some Sex Offenders Worse? by Lovins, Brian, Lowenkamp, Christopher T., Latessa, Edward J.

“…The risk principle states that higher risk offenders should receive more intensive services, whereas lower risk offenders should receive less intensive…”
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The Supervision of Low-Risk Federal Offenders: How the Low-risk Policy Has Changed Federal Supervision Practices without Compromising Community Safety by Cohen, Thomas H, Cook, David, Lowenkamp, Christopher T

“…SINCE THE EARLY 2000s, the federal probation and pretrial services system has adopted an approach that emphasizes using evidence-based practices to reduce the…”
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