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- Title
Identifying inmates at risk for disciplinary infractions: a comparison of two measures of psychopathy.
- Authors
Edens, John F.; Poythress, Norman G.; Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Edens, J F; Poythress, N G; Lilienfeld, S O
- Abstract
Poythress, Edens, and Lilienfeld (1998) recently reported a moderately strong correlation between Hare's (1991) Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and a newly developed self-report measure of psychopathy, the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) of Lilienfeld and Andrews (1996), in an ethnically diverse sample of 50 inmates from a youthful offender prison. The present study reports follow-up data regarding disciplinary infractions in this sample and examines the utility of the PCL-R and PPI for identifying those at risk for institutional misbehavior. Generally modest, but statistically significant, correlations were obtained between both measures and indices of aggressive institutional behavior. Multiple regression analyses revealed that both measures accounted for common variance in the criterion but that neither accounted for significant unique variance. Results are discussed in terms of the clinical utility of these measures in populations of young offenders.
- Subjects
INSTITUTIONALIZED persons; PSYCHOPATHS; JUVENILE offenders; CRIMINALS; YOUTH; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1999, Vol 17, Issue 4, p435
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199910/12)17:4<435::AID-BSL356>3.0.CO;2-Z