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- Title
Nipping psychopathy in the bud: an examination of the convergent, predictive, and theoretical utility of the PCL-YV among adolescent girls.
- Authors
Odgers, Candice L.; Reppucci, N. Dickon; Moretti, Marlene M.
- Abstract
Over the last decade rates of violence among adolescent girls have increased. Within high-risk contexts, urgent calls for assessment options have resulted in the extension of adult and male-based instruments to adolescent females in spite of the absence of strong empirical support. The current study evaluates the downward extension of psychopathy within a population of female juvenile offenders (N = 125). The convergent and predictive validity of the Psychopathy Checklist—Youth Version (PCL-YV) were evaluated within a structural equation modeling (SEM) framework. Results indicated that while a specific component of psychopathy, deficient affective experience, was related to aggression, the effect was negated once victimization experiences were entered into the models. In addition, PCL-YV scores were not predictive of future offending, while victimization experiences significantly increased the odds of re-offending. Implications for research, policy, and clinical practice are discussed. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
PSYCHOPATHS; TEENAGE girls; PERSONALITY disorders; JUVENILE offenders; RISK assessment
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2005, Vol 23, Issue 6, p743
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bsl.664