Psychopathy as a predictor of institutional misbehavior among sex offenders - A prospective replication

abstract

• This study compares the utility of two measures of psychopathic traits, the Antisocial Features (ANT) scale of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Psychopathy ChecklistRevised (PCL-R), to predict serious institutional misconduct among incarcerated sex offenders over a 2-year follow-up period. Archival disciplinary data for 58 offenders were classified as major infractions involving physical aggression, verbal aggression/acts of defiance, or nonaggressive offenses. Significant correlations were obtained between both measures of psychopathy and each type of disciplinary offense except physical aggression, the occurrence of which was rare in this sample. Regression analyses indicated that each measure accounted for uniqueor incrementalvariance in one of the criterion measures. Overall classification accuracy based on standard cut scores was somewhat more positive for ANT than for the PCL-R.

authors

• Edens, John

published proceedings

• CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR

altmetric score

• 6

author list (cited authors)

• Buffington-Vollum, J., Edens, J. F., Johnson, D. W., & Johnson, J. K.

citation count

• 70

complete list of authors

• Buffington-Vollum, J||Edens, JF||Johnson, DW||Johnson, JK

publication date

• January 2002

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Criminal Justice and Behavior  Journal

keywords

• Clinical Research
• Mental Health
• Violence Research

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/009385402236730

start page

• 497

end page

• 511

volume

• 29

issue

• 5

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1177%2F009385402236730