Evaluation of Lifestyle Criminality Screening from in Croatian Prison System

This paper examines metric characteristics and factor structure of Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF). Also, the correlation between LCSF and Level of Service Inventory- Revised (LSI-R) is analysed. The sample consists of 399 male prisoners, placed in the Department of Diagnostics and Treatment Programming in Zagreb Prison between March 2004 and June 2005. Analysis of the metric characteristics suggested that the LCSF questionnaire requires some improvements. Reliability measures of the first principal components, as well as the standard reliability measure are not satisfactory enough (under .80). The same is true for the LCSF representativity. Regression analysis revealed high multiple correlation between LCSF and LSI-R, which implies satisfactory diagnostic validity