Transcription of COMPAS Risk & Need Assessment System
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Copyright 2012 Northpointe Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. All rights reserved. COMPAS Risk & Need Assessment System Selected Questions Posed by Inquiri ng Agencies Ease of Use Does your tool require an interview with the inmate? If so, what advantage does this offer? Northpointe designed COMPAS to allow for test administration flexibility. There are several options data gathering options, any of which are valid . The offender may fill out the self-- report section on his or her own. There may be a sc ripted interview, in which questions are asked verbatim. The interviewer may use a guided discussion format to si multaneously gather the Assessment data and enhance rapport and buy-- in for the intervention process, using a motivational interviewing style. The choice is the agency s to make, depending on the skill level of their staff, the time available to collect the data, and the resources available for COMPAS administration.
The Violent Recidivism Scale was developed using survival modeling in a sample of probation intake and PSI cases to predict person offenses. The follow--‐up times ranged from one year to four years. We have evidence of the predictive validity of the Violent Recidivism Risk scale for person offenses in New
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