@article{ref1,
title="Self-report measures of child and adolescent psychopathy as predictors of offending in four samples of justice-involved youth",
journal="Assessment",
year="2007",
author="Boccaccini, Marcus T. and Epstein, Monica and Poythress, Norman and Douglas, K. S. and Campbell, Jacquelyn C. and Gardner, G. and Falkenbach, Diana",
volume="14",
number="4",
pages="361-374",
abstract="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.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1073-1911",
doi="10.1177/1073191107303569",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073191107303569"
}