Assessment · 2007 · 38 citations · 51 references
Social SciencesCriminologyPsychologyChild PsychiatryDevelopmental PsychopathologyJuvenile JusticeAdolescent PsychopathologyChild PsychopathologyChildhood PsychopathologyCrime Risk AssessmentJuvenile DelinquencyJuvenile SentencingDelinquency Risk AssessmentJuvenile PsychopathologyPsychopathy In AdolescentsPsychopathy In YouthRepresentative SamplesSelf-report MeasurementSelf-report QuestionnairesSelf-report Scales
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.
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