Psychopathy in adolescence and criminal recidivism in young adulthood: longitudinal results from a multiethnic sample of youthful offenders.

abstract

• Very few studies to date have examined the long-term predictive validity of psychopathy among juveniles. The current study reports general and violent recidivism data for an ethnically heterogeneous sample of male offenders (n = 75) who had been administered the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL: YV) in 1996 when they were on average 16 years of age. Neither total scores nor factor scores of the PCL: YV predicted general or violent reconvictions throughout this time frame. These modest effects underscore recent concerns raised about the utility of psychopathy as a risk factor for future criminality, particularly among multiethnic offender samples.

authors

• Edens, John

published proceedings

• Assessment

author list (cited authors)

• Edens, J. F., & Cahill, M. A

citation count

• 63

complete list of authors

• Edens, John F||Cahill, Melissa A

publication date

• March 2007

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Assessment  Journal

keywords

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Criminal Psychology
• Ethnic Groups
• Humans
• Juvenile Delinquency
• Longitudinal Studies
• Male
• Personality Assessment
• Psychometrics
• Recurrence
• Reproducibility Of Results
• Risk Factors
• Social Identification
• Southwestern United States

PubMed Central ID

• 17314180

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1073191106290711

start page

• 57

end page

• 64

volume

• 14

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1177%2F1073191106290711

user-defined tag

• 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions