The prevalence of psychopathic personality disturbances among incarcerated youth: Comparing serious, chronic, violent and sex offenders

Cale, Jesse; Lussier, Patrick; McCuish, Evan; Corrado, Ray

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.04.005

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“…In other words, clinical samples of youth evince a high preponderance of abusive experiences and deprivation. These findings were consistent with studies of youth residing in detention, correctional, and confinement facilities [7,8,9,10,11] where adverse childhood experiences are endemic.…”

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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

DeLisi

Alcala

Kusow

et al. 2017

IJERPH

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Adverse childhood experiences are associated with an array of health, psychiatric, and behavioral problems including antisocial behavior. Criminologists have recently utilized adverse childhood experiences as an organizing research framework and shown that adverse childhood experiences are associated with delinquency, violence, and more chronic/severe criminal careers. However, much less is known about adverse childhood experiences vis-à-vis specific forms of crime and whether the effects vary across race and ethnicity. Using a sample of 2520 male confined juvenile delinquents, the current study used epidemiological tables of odds (both unadjusted and adjusted for onset, total adjudications, and total out of home placements) to evaluate the significance of the number of adverse childhood experiences on commitment for homicide, sexual assault, and serious persons/property offending. The effects of adverse childhood experiences vary considerably across racial and ethnic groups and across offense types. Adverse childhood experiences are strongly and positively associated with sexual offending, but negatively associated with homicide and serious person/property offending. Differential effects of adverse childhood experiences were also seen among African Americans, Hispanics, and whites. Suggestions for future research to clarify the mechanisms by which adverse childhood experiences manifest in specific forms of criminal behavior are offered.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

DeLisi

Alcala

Kusow

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“…126 Juvenile sex offenders were found to have twoto-three times higher scores for psychopathy than juvenile non-sex offenders. 127 The authors also found that approximately 75% of the juvenile sex offenders in their study had higher rates of prior violent convictions. These juvenile sex offenders differed from their juvenile non-sex offender counterparts primarily on Factor 1 (interpersonal and emotional factors) than one Factor 2.…”

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“…Both juvenile sex offender and juvenile non-sex offenders who demonstrate callous-unemotional traits demonstrate more severe and aggressive antisocial behavior patterns than those who do not score high on this factor. 127,130…”

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

Johnson¹

2019

FRCIJ

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The Violent personality I will refer to the violent personality as one that involves a variety of factors and background, including the following factors supported by the literature Table 1. Some of the factors mentioned above appear to be ignored in general violent risk and court ordered assessments of offenders who engage in domestic abuse (any type of relational violence) and sexual offense crimes. Below is a summary to further explain their relevance.

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“…Therefore, for the authors, juvenile and adult sex offenders are two distinct groups. Cale, Lussier, McCuish, and Corrado (2015) show a connection between the presence of psychopathic traits and sex offending; in particular, juvenile sex offenders presented with more evidence of psychopathy symptoms -not because they are more antisocial but because their interpersonal and emotional/affective functioning is more in line with the construct of psychopathy. In another recent study, Young, Koenigs, Kruepke, and Newman (2012) examined 20 psychopathic and 25 non-psychopathic criminals using tasks based on moral judgement; in these tasks, every participant was asked to evaluate some types of inflicted damage, whether accidental, deliberate or attempted and some neutral acts, and psychopathic offenders showed an emotional deficit in assessing the harm caused to victims (Gao & Tang, 2013;Young et al, 2012).…”

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Moral Disengagement and Psychopathy: A Study on Offenders in Italian Jails

Petruccelli

Barbaranelli

Costantino

et al. 2017

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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This article investigates mechanisms of moral disengagement and psychopathy in offender detainees (sex offenders and non-sex offenders). In particular, this article investigates whether, in all offenders, moral disengagement and psychopathy are correlated, if there are any differences between sex offenders and non-sex offenders as to psychopathy, and if there are any differences between rapists and child molesters in regard to their levels of psychopathy. The results indicate that, in all offenders, levels of moral disengagement are associated with levels of psychopathy, while sex offenders are more selfish, more insensitive and less remorseful than non-sex offenders. It is also found that rapists display more antisocial behaviour problematic elements in their lifestyle than child molesters. As well as increasing the dedicated literature, studying the mechanisms and characteristics of offenders-and of sex offenders in particular-may be of considerable importance for the promotion of effective and targeted treatment strategies.

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The prevalence of psychopathic personality disturbances among incarcerated youth: Comparing serious, chronic, violent and sex offenders

Cited by 39 publications

References 37 publications

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

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

Moral Disengagement and Psychopathy: A Study on Offenders in Italian Jails

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