Self-Report Measures of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy as Predictors of Offending in Four Samples of Justice-Involved Youth  

Oleh:

Boccaccini, Marcus T. ; Epstein, Monica ; Poythress, Norman ; Douglas, Kevin S. ; Campbell, Justin ; Gardner, Gail ; Falkenbach, Diana

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Assessment vol. 14 no. 4 (Dec. 2007), page 361-374.
Topik: psychopathy; juvenile; self-report; offending; APSD; mCPS
Fulltext: 361.pdf (172.78KB)

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The authors examined the relation between self-report psychopathy measures and official records of offending in four samples of justice-involved youth (total N = 447). Psychopathy measures included the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) and a modified version of the Childhood Psychopathy Scale (mCPS). Measures of offending included the total number of preadmission arrest charges for three samples (n = 392) and the total number of offenses in the year following release for two samples (n = 138). Neither measure was a strong correlate of preadmission offenses. Although mCPS scores were associated with postrelease offending in one sample, effects for the APSD were observed only when reoffending was conceptualized as a dichotomous variable, indicating a lack of robustness in this association. The findings suggest caution in the use of self-report measures of psychopathic features for decision making with respect to issues of delinquency risk among justice-involved youth.

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