TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Psychopathy and violent recidivism among young criminal offenders
JO  - Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum
A1  - Långström, Niklas
A1  - Grann, M.
SP  - 86
EP  - 92
VL  - 
IS  - 412
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0065-1591
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -