Incarcerated youths with high or low callous–unemotional traits: a comparison controlling for age of crime onset

Pechorro, Pedro; Nunes, Cristina; García, Lucía Jiménez; García, María Victoria Hidalgo

doi:10.1080/14789949.2014.971853

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“…Results do not support the notion that the Callous-Unemotional dimension of the APSD-SR is especially relevant in identifying serious youth offenders and in predicting recidivism (Frick & White, 2008). Other studies have also put in to question the utility of the Callous-Unemotional traits after controlling for criminal history (e.g., Lahey, 2014; Pechorro, Nunes, Jiménez, & Hidalgo, 2015). This may also prove to be true from a clinical point of view because the new Limited Prosocial Emotions specifier of the Conduct Disorder diagnosis (APA, 2013) was partly derived from the items of the Callous-Unemotional dimension of the APSD.…”

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A Prospective Study on Self-Reported Psychopathy and Criminal Recidivism Among Incarcerated Male Juvenile Offenders

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Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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The present study examines the utility of three self-report measures of psychopathic traits in predicting recidivism among a sample of incarcerated male juvenile offenders. Participants ( N = 214, M = 16.40 years, SD = 1.29 years) from seven Portuguese juvenile detention centers were followed and prospectively classified as recidivists versus non-recidivists. Area under the curve (AUC) analysis revealed that the Antisocial Process Screening Device–Self-Report (APSD-SR) presented the best performance in terms of predicting general recidivism, with the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI) and the Childhood and Adolescent Taxon Scale–Self-Report (CATS-SR) presenting much poorer results. However, logistic regression models controlling for past frequency of crimes and age of first incarceration found that none of these self-report measures significantly predicted 1- or 3-year recidivism, whether general or violent. Findings suggest there are limitations in terms of the incremental utility of self-report measures of psychopathic traits in predicting recidivism among juveniles.

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confidence: 76%