COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BASE EXPECTANCY TABLES FOR SELECTED SUBPOPULATIONS OF CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY WARDS

• NCJ Number: 2234
• Author(s): R T Beverly
• Date Published: 1968
• Length: 25 pages
• Corporate Author: California Dept of the Youth Authority
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

BASE EXPECTANCY TABLES, USED BY THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH AUTHORITY (CYA) SINCE 1959, HAVE BEEN APPLIED TO TOTAL POPULATION OF MALE WARDS RELEASED TO PAROLE SUPERVISION.

Abstract

SEVERAL SUBPOPULATIONS OF THAT POPULATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE AS HAVING A GREATER PREDICTIVE EFFICIENCY OF PAROLE SUCCESS ARE EXAMINED. THE SUBGROUPS WERE ADMISSION, READMISSION, AND TOTAL ADMISSION. THE BASE EXPECTANCY TABLES OF EACH WERE COMPARED. IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT IN TERMS OF PREDICTIVE EFFICIENCY, THE TOTAL ADMISSION TABLE WAS SOMEWHAT SUPERIOR TO BOTH FIRST ADMISSION AND READMISSION TABLES. THIS PARTICULAR FINDING WAS BY NO MEANS A NECESSARY ONE AND THERE MAY WELL EXIST OTHER SUBPOPULATIONS FOR WHICH SPECIFIC BASE EXPECTANCY TABLES MIGHT BE MORE APPROPRIATE. UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THESE SUBPOPULATIONS ARE IDENTIFIED, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT A SINGLE BASE EXPECTANCY TABLE WILL BE ABLE TO SATISFY CURRENT YOUTH AUTHORITY NEEDS FOR THIS TYPE OF INSTRUMENT. (AUTHOR MODIFIED)