Citation

Murrie DC, Marcus DK, Douglas KS, Lee Z, Salekin RT, Vincent G. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 2007; 48(7): 714-723.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01734.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Background:  Recently, researchers have sought to measure psychopathy-like features among youth in hopes of identifying children who may be progressing toward a particularly destructive form of adult pathology. However, it remains unclear whether psychopathy-like personality features among youth are best conceptualized as dimensional (distributed along a continuum) or taxonic (such that youth with psychopathic personality characteristics are qualitatively distinct from non-psychopathic youth).