The following table provides information on seven comprehensive risk/needs assessments for inmate treatment, planning, and placement.
Criminogenic Risk/Needs Assessment |
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Tool Name |
Cost |
Time to Complete Interview |
Inventory Items |
Instrument Result |
Additional Information |
Level of Service Inventory–Revised |
$2.20/use |
60 minutes |
54-item inventory – interview |
Total risk/need score and 10 subdomain scores |
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| Level of Service / Case Management Inventory (LS-CMI) | $2.20/use |
120–180 minutes |
124-item inventory – interview |
Risk/needs score, responsivity score, generates plan for case management |
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Correctional Offender Management Profiles for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) |
Per user fee of approx. $225/user/ |
90 minutes |
98-item inventory – interview |
Risk/needs score and plan for case management
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| Ohio Risk Assessment System (ORAS) | No cost |
45-90 minutes |
101-item inventory – pretrial assessment, community supervision screening, community supervision full assessment, prison intake, prison reentry |
Total risk/need score and 7 subdomain scores |
www.uc.edu/corrections/ services/trainings/offender_ assessment.html |
Wisconsin Risk/Needs |
No cost |
60 minutes |
23 items – interview |
Risk/needs score |
Available in PDF from http://www.j-sat.com/ |
Applied Correctional Transition Strategy |
By jurisdiction Software license or |
45-minute initial interview |
Risk triage + 17 item interview for full risk/needs, |
Risk triage rating |
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Client Management Classification (CMC) |
No cost |
60–75 minutes |
71 items – interview |
Risk/needs score and suggested plan for case management |
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Correctional Assessment Intervention System (CAIS) |
By jurisdiction Software license or |
60 – 75 minutes |
82 items |
Risk/needs score, generates plan for case management |
http://www.nccdglobal.org/assessment/ correctional-assessment-and-intervention -system-cais |
Here we briefly discuss some other screens and assessments used in the jails and the community throughout the country.
The Jacksonville (Florida) Sheriff's Office uses the three question Proxy risk screener to quickly and objectively sort all inmates booked into its Pretrial Detention Facility by risk to reoffend. The Proxy scores individuals as low, medium or high risk to reoffend based on a scale ranging from 2 to 8. Jacksonville selected the Proxy risk screener because it takes less than 5 minutes to administer and scores can be generated automatically; local recidivism analyses have also found the Proxy to be highly predictive. Jacksonville targets sentenced inmates screened as medium to high risk on the Proxy for in-depth criminogenic risk/needs assessment.
Specialized screens and assessments, in conjunction with comprehensive general risk and needs assessments, can be used to contribute to targeted treatment and transitional planning. Selective use of one or more of these tools is recommended when an individual scores high on all or a section of a comprehensive risk/needs assessment. The tables below list commonly used behavioral health, substance abuse, and sex offender screens and assessments.
Specialized Screens and Assessments for Populations with Behavioral Health Issues |
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Tool Name |
Cost |
Time to Complete Interview |
Inventory Items |
Instrument Result |
Additional Information |
The Brief Jail Mental Health Screen |
No cost |
Less than three minutes |
Eight items – interview, behavioral health |
Quick screen for the presence of a mental health disorder |
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Mental Health Screening Form-III |
No cost |
—Three to five minutes |
17 items – interview, behavioral health |
Quick screen for the presence of a mental health disorder |
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Global Appraisal of Individual Needs – Short Screener (GAIN-SS) |
By jurisdiction Software license or |
Three to five Minutes |
20 items – interview, |
Quick screen and identification of clients with one or more behavioral health concerns |
http://www.gaincc.org/GAINSS
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Global Appraisal of Individual Needs – (GAIN) |
By jurisdiction Software license or |
90–120 minutes |
123 items – interview, |
Identification of clients with one or more behavioral health concerns |
http://www.gaincc.org/index.cfm? pageID=49 |
Hare Psychopathy Checklist–Revised: |
Excluding start-up cost $3/use |
120–180 minutes |
20-item inventory + structured interview to assess psychopathy |
Assessment of psychopathy |
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