ADULT PRESENTENCE EVALUATION

The Adult Presentence Evaluation is designed to provide helpful information to court service personnel, judges, jail administrators and attorneys. The APE can be administered at any of several stages in the defendant's proceedings, such as prior to formal charges being filed, before the defendant's initial court appearance, prior to initial services or probable cause hearings, in advance of pretrial-release decisions, ahead of preliminary/grand jury hearings, at prescreening prior to sentencing and litigation, after an indictment is issued or before diversion program decisions are made

The Adult Presentence Evaluation classifies substance abuse and dependency in terms of DSM-IV criteria, while concurrently measuring alcohol and drug use severity.

The Adult Presentence Evaluation has 158 items, takes 35 minutes to complete and has seven scales (measures):

1. Truthfulness Scale 2. Resistance Scale 3. Violence (Lethality) Scale 4. Stress Coping Abilities Scale

5. Substance Abuse/Dependency Scale   6. Alcohol Scale   7. Drugs Scale

In brief, Adult Presentence Evaluation (APE) reports summarize the suspect's self-report history, present empirically based scale scores, explain what attained scale scores mean and offer specific score-related recommendations.