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- Title
Psychopathy scores and violence among juvenile offenders: a multi-measure study
- Authors
Murrie, Daniel C.; Cornell, Dewey G.; Kaplan, Sebastian; McConville, David; Levy-Elkon, Andrea
- Abstract
This study examined the relations between psychopathy scores and violent behavior in 113 incarcerated adolescents. We compared the results of four different instruments designed to assess psychopathy features among juveniles—the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV), two versions of the Antisocial Processes Screening Device (APSD), and a Psychopathy Content scale on the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI). We found that PCLY:YV scores were significantly correlated with violent offense history, unadjudicated violence, and institutional violence, as well as measures of the severity and instrumentality of prior violence. Receiver operating characteristic analyses generated statistically significant effect sizes (AUC values) ranging from 0.64 to 0.79. The three other measures generated statistically significant correlations with one or more of the violence criteria, although correlations and effect sizes tended to be smaller in magnitude. Our results offer some support for the validity of these measures of psychopathic features, and the value of the PCL:YV in particular, with respect to short-term measures of violence outcome among juvenile offenders. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
PATHOLOGICAL psychology; VIOLENT adolescents; ADOLESCENT psychology; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2004, Vol 22, Issue 1, p49
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.573