@article{ref1,
title="Criminal psychopathy: a risk-and-need perspective",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2000",
author="Simourd, David J. and Hoge, Robert D.",
volume="27",
number="2",
pages="256-272",
abstract="The present study explored whether a risk/needs perspective could assist in understanding the construct of criminal psychopathy as assessed by the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). Three hundred and twenty-one inmates serving sentences for violent offenses were assessed on the PCL-R and administered a variety of psychometric measures relevant to criminal conduct. Using a traditional PCL-R cutoff, 36 participants (11.2%) were designated as psychopaths and 285 (88.8%) were designated as nonpsychopaths and compared on various criminal conduct and psychometric variables. <br><br>RESULTS showed that psychopaths had significantly greater risk/needs areas than nonpsychopaths, and this pattern remained when alternative diagnostic cutoffs were used. Implications of the findings with respect to theory and practice are considered.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854800027002007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854800027002007"
}