TY - JOUR PY - 1999// TI - Risk factors in violent and nonviolent offenders JO - Psychological reports A1 - Valliant, P. M. A1 - Gristey, C. A1 - Pottier, D. A1 - Kosmyna, R. SP - 675 EP - 680 VL - 85 IS - 2 N2 - Factors leading to risk for violence were evaluated in an offender population of 36 male offenders including 18 Violent, e.g., assault, threatening and 17 nonviolent (break and enter, theft), and 17 nonoffenders. Their scores on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised, Violence Risk Scale-Experimental Version 1, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-168, and the Porteus Maze tests showed scores for the inmates with violent offenses were elevated on Psychopathic Deviate, Paranoia, Schizophrenia scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, violence risk of the Violence Risk Scale, showed psychopathic orientation on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised, and had a lower test age quotient score on the Porteus Maze test.

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