@article{ref1,
title="Psychopathy and violent recidivism among young criminal offenders",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum",
year="2002",
author="Långström, Niklas and Grann, M.",
volume="",
number="412",
pages="86-92",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To investigate the predictive validity of psychopathic personality traits (assessed with the revised psychopathy checklist, PCL-R; Hare, 1991) for violent criminal recidivism among young offenders. METHOD: The relationship between PCL-R psychopathy and violent re-offending was studied in 98 young (M=18.40, range 15-20 years) violent and sex offenders subjected to forensic psychiatric evaluation in Sweden during 1988-95. Subjects were followed during detainment and for 24 months in the community to first reconviction for a violent offence. RESULTS: We found a modest but significant association between PCL-R scores and violent recidivism, almost exclusively accounted for by behavioural criteria. Among 13 possible confounders tested, conduct disorder before age 15 and a young age at first conviction eliminated the relationship between psychopathy and violent recidivism in pair-wise logistic regression models. CONCLUSION: PCL-R psychopathy may be a less valid predictor for violent criminal recidivism among severe youthful offenders than among adult offenders.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0065-1591",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}