Personality functioning and psychopathic traits in child molesters and violent offenders

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Self‐report versus clinician‐ratings in the assessment of aggression in violent offenders

“…Previously, it has been argued that sexual violence and non‐sexual violence to some extent constitute distinct types of aggression (Garofalo et al., 2018; Lussier, 2005; Lussier & Cale, 2013; Mitchell & Beech, 2011; Pettersen et al., 2016), but our findings suggest that aggression measures are unlikely to be helpful as indicators of risk of most sexual offending. In our study, sexual offences could be discriminated from all measures of aggression through a small but consistent negative correlation.…”

“…Violent offences (including attempted and aggravated forms) were defined as any of the following: homicide, manslaughter, assault, robbery, threats and violence against an officer, gross violation of a woman's or an individual's integrity, unlawful coercion, unlawful threat, kidnapping, illegal confinement and arson. Sexual offences, in some research included as violent offences, were excluded from our variable ‘violent offences’ as there is evidence that they may have a partially different aetiology (Garofalo, Bogaerts & Denissen, 2018; Lussier, 2005; Lussier & Cale, 2013; Mitchell & Beech, 2011; Pettersen, Nunes & Cortoni, 2016). Thus, sexual offences (including attempted and aggravated forms) were coded as a separate variable.…”

Understanding the violent personality: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, & sociopathy explored

“…For example, Schimmenti et al, 103 found that child sexual abusers scored higher on the PCL-R than non-violent sex offenders but did not differentiate between child molesters and pedophiles. Another recent study found that violent offenders had higher degrees of psychopathy than child molesters, 104 however the general comparison of "child molesters" to violent non-sex offenders appears less relevant. The authors admit that they included any sex offender who sexually molested a child as "child molesters" and did not differentiate pedophiles from child molesters, including all sex offenders with child victims as child molesters (personal communication with Garofalo, 12/31/2018).…”

Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP): A Replication and Extension in Dutch Nonclinical Participants

“…Other investigators have successfully proposed the addition of new items to improve the psychometric performance of the LSRP in general, and of the Callousness scale in particular (Christian & Sellbom, 2016). However, considering that the original LSRP is still vastly used worldwide, thanks to its availability in several languages (Chabrol, Labeyrie, Rodgers, & Levenson, 2010;Garofalo, Bogaerts, & Denissen, 2018;Shou et al, 2017;Somma et al, 2014;Uzieblo, Verschuere, & Crombez, 2006;Verschuere et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2018), further scrutiny of the model fit and construct validity of the three-factor structure of the LSRP seems warranted, before its use can be discouraged. For instance, in a recent study, the Chinese translation of the LSRP has yielded promising results in terms of measurement invariance and construct validity of its three-factor structure (Shou et al, 2017), hence renovating its status as an efficient self-report measure of psychopathic traits.…”