TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Criminal psychopathy: a risk-and-need perspective
JO  - Criminal justice and behavior
A1  - Simourd, David J.
A1  - Hoge, Robert D.
SP  - 256
EP  - 272
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0093-8548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854800027002007
ID  - ref1
ER  -