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The article by Smith, Cullen, and Latessa (2009, this issue) and the policy responses to it by Kelly Hannah-Moffat (2009, this issue) as well as by Kelly Taylor and Kelley Blanchette (2009, this issue) raise a broad set of questions related to how well the offender risk and needs assessment tool, the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), predicts the future behavior of women offenders. The article by Smith et al. reports on a meta-analysis of the results of several studies using the LSI-R to predict women offenders' rule breaking, for example in prison or while on parole, and their recidivism. The questions that can be addressed with the metaanalysis are as follows: Is the LSI-R an adequate predictor for women? How good a predictor is it? Does it do as well in predicting women's behavior as it does in predicting men's behavior? The article and the responses to it put many other questions on the table. Is the LSI-R the …