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Psychopathy and Violent Misconduct in a Sample of Violent Young Offenders

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2015-06-24
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Abstract
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 Longitudinal Study of Incarcerated Young Offenders were used. Bivariate, AUC-ROC, 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, psychopathic youth 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.
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Shaffer, Catherine & McCuish, Evan & Corrado, Raymond R. & Behnken, Monic P. & DeLisi, Matt, 2015. "Psychopathy and violent misconduct in a sample of violent young offenders [Special Issue]."Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 43(4), pages 321-326. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.05.008
Publication title
Journal of Criminal Justice
Document title
Psychopathy and violent misconduct in a sample of violent young offenders [Special Issue]
Publisher
Elsevier
Date
2015
Volume
43
Issue
4
First page
321
Last page
326
Publisher DOI
10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.05.008
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Yes
Language
English
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