The PCL: YV and recidivism in male and female juveniles: a follow-up into young adulthood
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UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PsychiatryDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2008-06-07Keywords
AdolescentAntisocial Personality Disorder
British Columbia
Child
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Juvenile Delinquency
Logistic Models
Male
Models, Psychological
Multivariate Analysis
Prisoners
*Psychological Tests
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Assessment
Sex Factors
Violence
Health Services Research
Mental and Social Health
Psychiatric and Mental Health
Psychiatry
Psychiatry and Psychology
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Adolescents, and most recently, adolescent females, have emerged as an important population in violence risk assessment and have sparked a debate regarding the downward and gendered extension of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV). This article evaluates the differential prediction of the three and four-factor models of the PCL:YV for male (n=201) and female (n=55) juvenile offenders using a prospective four and one-half year follow-up (M=3 years) study. Both models of the PCL:YV were significant predictors for boys; however, contrary to findings from studies using shorter follow-up periods, the predictive power was due primarily to the behavioral features of psychopathy. The PCL:YV was not a significant predictor of non-violent or violent recidivism for girls. This study does not lend support for the use of the PCL:YV as a risk factor for girl offenders. More research is needed to understand the application of the psychopathy construct in youth, particularly in girls.Source
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2008 Jun-Jul;31(3):287-96. Epub 2008 Jun 5. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1016/j.ijlp.2008.04.012Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45257PubMed ID
18534679Related Resources
Link to Article in PubMedae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.ijlp.2008.04.012