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Relation between offenders' risk/need level and estimated self-efficacy in avoiding crime

The aim of this paper is to examine metric characteristics, factor structure and the relation between Walters’ Estimated Self-Efficacy in Avoiding Crime Scale (1998) and Level of Service Inventory - Revised (LSI-R) (Andrews and Bonta, 1991). The research has been conducted on a sample of 399 male adult convicts aged 19 to 60 years (M= 31, 8, SD= 8, 22) who have passed through the Department of Diagnostics and Treatment of Ministry of Justice in the period from March 2004 to June 2005. Most of the respondents (28%) were convicted for the criminal offence related to drug abuse, for aggravated robbery (19%), for robbery (11%), fraud (8%) and for murder (7%). All other criminal offences were represented in significantly smaller percentages. General hypothesis is that higher levels of general Risk/needs are related with lower assessment of their self-efficacy in avoiding crime. The data were processed by the method of correlation analysis and factorial analysis (program SPSS for Windows, ver. 13). Metric characteristics of Estimated Self-Efficacy in Avoiding Crime Scale were analysed by statistical program rtt7, contained in IR program package. FActor analysis is conducted using SPSS for Windows 13.0 progra, and the corelation between the results of mentioned instruments was calculated using the same program. All of metric characteristics of Scale are satisfying. Results of factor analysis, Scale homogeneity and correlations between subscales suggest that it measures one general factor of self-efficacy. Correlation analysis showed significant correlation between Self-efficacy scale and LSI-R. Higher risk/need levels on total LSI-R score are related with lower assessment of Self-efficacy in avoiding crime.

Estimated Self-Efficacy in Avoiding Crime Scale; LSI-R

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