Psychopathy and violent misconduct in a sample of violent young offenders

被引:16
作者
Shaffer, Catherine [1 ]
McCuish, Evan [2 ]
Corrado, Raymond R. [2 ,3 ]
Behnken, Monic P. [4 ]
DeLisi, Matt [4 ]
机构
[1] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Psychol, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[2] Simon Fraser Univ, Sch Criminol, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[3] Univ Bergen, Fac Law, N-5010 Bergen, Norway
[4] Iowa State Univ, Dept Sociol, Ames, IA 50011 USA
关键词
YOUTH VERSION; PCL-R; PREDICTIVE-VALIDITY; CRIMINAL CAREERS; PRISON; TRAITS; INPATIENT; CHECKLIST; TRAJECTORIES; MISBEHAVIOR;
D O I
10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.05.008
中图分类号
DF [法律]; D9 [法律];
学科分类号
0301 ;
摘要
Purpose: Most prior research on psychopathy and institutional misconduct/violence occurs with adult samples and comparatively less is known about the nature of this relationship among serious, violent juvenile offenders. Methods: A subsample of 159 male serious and violent offenders interviewed in custody facilities in British Columbia, Canada as part of the Vancouver Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study were used. Bivariate, ROC-AUC, and Poisson regression models examined the association between psychopathy and violent misconduct and exposure to violence with different specifications and separately for Caucasian and Aboriginal youth. Results: Overall, youth with stronger symptoms of psychopathy evince more misconduct, are more violent, and break more institutional rules than their less psychopathic peers; however, the effects are relatively small, and ROC-AUC models reveal generally unimpressive classification accuracy. Conclusions: Although psychopathy is a risk factor for violent misconduct, its effects are measurement-variant (e.g., total scores, factor scores, and item scores) and differ for Caucasian and Aboriginal serious offenders. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:321 / 326
页数:6
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