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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
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Revalidation of a Gender-Informed Security Reclassification Scale for Women Inmates

Renée Gobeil

Correctional Service of Canada and Carleton University, Ottawa

Kelley Blanchette

Correctional Service of Canada and Carleton University, Ottawa

Amid calls for gender-informed classification measures for women offenders, the Correctional Service of Canada developed and field tested the Security Reclassification Scale for Women (SRSW). In 2005, the SRSW was implemented nationally to anchor security level review decisions for federally sentenced women offenders. To reassess the scale's psychometric properties, this study used the population of 448 consecutive security reviews conducted since the scale's implementation. Results demonstrated that the SRSW continues to be a reliable measure with satisfactory convergent and predictive validity. Moreover, SRSW security classification recommendations equaled or outperformed correctional caseworker recommendations on all indices of validity.

Key Words: classification • security classification • women offenders

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 23, No. 4, 296-309 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1043986207309411
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