An investigation of reliability and validity of the LS/CMI with French offenders

I Bertsch; J-P Guay; C Réveillère; E Telle; H Douceron; M Dubuisson; R Courtois; T Pham

doi:10.1016/j.encep.2022.05.003

An investigation of reliability and validity of the LS/CMI with French offenders

Encephale. 2023 Oct;49(5):460-465. doi: 10.1016/j.encep.2022.05.003. Epub 2022 Aug 13.

Authors

I Bertsch¹, J-P Guay², C Réveillère³, E Telle⁴, H Douceron⁵, M Dubuisson⁶, R Courtois⁷, T Pham⁸

Affiliations

¹ University of Tours, Department of Psychology, EE 1901 Qualipsy (Quality of life and psychological health), 37000 Tours, France; Centre Val de Loire Resource centers for professionals working with sex, University hospital center of Tours, 37000 Tours, France; University of Mons, Department of Forensic Psychology, 7000 Mons, Belgium. Electronic address: i.bertsch@chu-tours.fr.
² School of Criminology, International Center of Comparative Criminology (ICCC), Philippe-Pinel National Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada.
³ University of Tours, Department of Psychology, EE 1901 Qualipsy (Quality of life and psychological health), 37000 Tours, France.
⁴ University of Mons, Department of Forensic Psychology, 7000 Mons, Belgium.
⁵ Penitentiary Center of Orléans-Saran, Regional Medical and Psychological Service, G.-Daumezon Hospital Center, 45400 Fleury-les-Aubrais, France.
⁶ Detention Centre of Bédenac, Sanitary Unit, Hospital Center of Bergerac, 24100 Bergerac, France.
⁷ University of Tours, Department of Psychology, EE 1901 Qualipsy (Quality of life and psychological health), 37000 Tours, France; Centre Val de Loire Resource centers for professionals working with sex, University hospital center of Tours, 37000 Tours, France.
⁸ University of Mons, Department of Forensic Psychology, 7000 Mons, Belgium; Research Center in Social Defense, CRDS, 7500 Tournai, Belgium.

PMID: 35973848
DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2022.05.003

Abstract

Introduction: The Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (LS/CMI) is one of the best-known recidivism risk instruments. In France, this scale is rarely used because no study had yet been carried out to confirm its psychometric properties on samples of French offenders. The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the LS/CMI on samples of violent French prisoners.

Method: The Level of Service/Case Management Inventory, the BARR-2002R, Historical Clinic Risk-Scale 20 and the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol were administered to 128 violent offenders.

Results-discussion: The results showed good internal consistency, reliability and convergent validity of the LS/CMI. Assault, robbery and sexual assault were correlated with the LS/CMI. All of these results are discussed and analysed using the international reference literature.

Conclusion: Confirmation of the psychometric properties of the LS/CMI among French offenders to allow it to be used to assess the risk of recidivism of offenders.

Keywords: Assessment; Criminality; Délinquance; LS/CMI; Recidivism; Risk; Risque; Récidive; Évaluation.

MeSH terms

Case Management
Criminals*
Humans
Recidivism*
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Assessment / methods