Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R)
The Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) is a 54-item actuarial assessment of offender risk and need that operationalizes the Risk-Need-Responsivity model. Items spanning ten criminogenic domains are scored and summed into a total that places an offender in a recidivism-risk band, making the LSI-R one of the most widely used and validated correctional case-management instruments in the world.
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Sources
- Andrews, D. A., & Bonta, J. (2010). The Psychology of Criminal Conduct (5th ed.). Routledge/Anderson. ISBN: 9781422463291
- Gendreau, P., Little, T., & Goggin, C. (1996). A meta-analysis of the predictors of adult offender recidivism: What works! Criminology, 34(4), 575–608. DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1996.tb01220.x ↗
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ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/criminology/lsi-r-assessment
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