The Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form and Antisocial Personality Disorder: predicting release outcome in a state prison sample

The Lifestyle Criminality Screening Form (LCSF) was compared with a clinical diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder for the purposes of determining the relative efficiency of each measure in predicting the release outcome of 100 medium security New Mexico state prisoners. An 18-month follow-up revealed that high LCSF scores (total score > or = 10) and clinical diagnoses of Antisocial Personality Disorder effectively identified inmates who were eventually reincarcerated for a parole violation or new offense. However, because substantial overlap occurred between these two predictors (kappa = .58) partial correlations were calculated and revealed that only the LCSF displayed a robust relationship with release outcome independent of the other predictor measure.