Citation

Huss MT, Langhinrichsen-Rohling J. Law Hum. Behav. 2006; 30(5): 571-586.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Creighton University, Room 307 Hixon-Lied Science Building, Omaha, NE 68178, USA. mhuss@creighton.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1007/s10979-006-9052-x

PMID

17031606

Abstract

This study proposed that domestic violence perpetrators in a clinical sample could be categorized into distinct subgroups and that a particular subgroup of batterers would exhibit sufficient psychopathic characteristics to be clinically meaningful. Participants were interviewed in order to gather a relevant social, familial, educational, criminal, and substance abuse history. They were then administered several psychological measures including the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV). Results lent support to the empirical batterer typology identified by Holtzworth-Munroe, A., Meehan, J. C., Herron, K., Rehman, U., & Stuart, G. L. (2000). However, despite the presence of a more antisocial subgroup, psychopathy did not consistently differentiate among batterers across the measured dependent variables.

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