Aboriginal people are over represented among offender populations.
One of the important tasks for corrections is the management of offender risk. In order to accomplish this task, assessments of offenders' risk of committing new crimes are routinely conducted. However, the majority of offender risk assessment instruments have been standardized on male non-Aboriginal offender populations and therefore, there is a need to evaluate the validity of these risk scales for use with Aboriginal offenders. Subjects were drawn from a database maintained by the Manitoba Community and Youth Corrections Division. The database consisted of approximately 11,600 adult probationers, male and female, who completed their terms of probation between 1986 and 1991.