@article{ref1,
title="Nipping psychopathy in the bud: an examination of the convergent, predictive, and theoretical utility of the PCL-YV among adolescent girls",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="2005",
author="Odgers, Candice L. and Reppucci, N. Dickon and Moretti, Marlene M.",
volume="23",
number="6",
pages="743-763",
abstract="Over the last decade rates of violence among adolescent girls have increased. Within high-risk contexts, urgent calls for assessment options have resulted in the extension of adult and male-based instruments to adolescent females in spite of the absence of strong empirical support. The current study evaluates the downward extension of psychopathy within a population of female juvenile offenders (N=125). The convergent and predictive validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Youth Version (PCL-YV) were evaluated within a structural equation modeling (SEM) framework. Results indicated that while a specific component of psychopathy, deficient affective experience, was related to aggression, the effect was negated once victimization experiences were entered into the models. In addition, PCL-YV scores were not predictive of future offending, while victimization experiences significantly increased the odds of re-offending. Implications for research, policy, and clinical practice are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.664",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.664"
}