TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Anger and prediction of violent and nonviolent offenders' recidivism
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Loza, Wagdy
A1  - Loza-Fanous, Amel
SP  - 1014
EP  - 1029
VL  - 14
IS  - 10
N2  - This study investigates the usefulness of assessing anger for the prediction of violent and nonviolent recidivism. Four risk/need measures and four anger inventories were administered to 252 Canadian federally incarcerated male offenders. The association between anger and recidivism was investigated by (a) comparing groups of participants classified to different levels of risks for recidivism according to their scores on actuarial measures of recidivism and their scores on measures of anger, (b) canonical correlation between the offenders' scores on measures of risk for recidivism and the anger inventories, and (c) correlating the clinical variables of age at admission, number of past offenses, and number of violent offences with offenders' scores on measures of anger. The results indicate that all comparisons are not significant. Results of this study shed doubts on the usefulness of assessing anger when predicting violent and nonviolent recidivism.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/088626099014010002
ID  - ref1
ER  -