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Evaluation of Lifestyle criminality screening form in croatian prison system

The aim of this paper is to analyse metric characteristics of Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF) and factor structure. Also, the correlation between LCSF and Level of Service Inventory- Revised (LSI-R) will be examined. The sample consists of 399 male prisoners, placed in the State Centre for Psychosocial Diagnostics in Zagreb between March 2004 and June 2005. The data were processed by the program rtt7 for computing of the metric characteristics of the instruments, by the factorial analysis (principal components) and by the regression analysis. Analysis of the metric characteristics suggests that the LCSF questionnaire requires some improvements. Measures of the reliability of the first principal components, as well as the standard reliability measure are not reliable enough (under .80). The same is true for the representativity of the questionnaire. Regression analysis showed that LCSF is in high multiple correlation with the questionnaire LSI-R, which implies satisfactory diagnostic validity.

Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF); evaluation Croatian Prison System

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