Psychopathy Scores Predict Recidivism in High-risk Youth: A Five-year Follow-up Study.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
; 52(7): 1089-1103, 2024 07.
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ABSTRACT
Psychopathic traits have been associated with rearrest in adolescents involved in the criminal legal system. Much of the prior work has focused on White samples, short follow-up windows, and relatively low-risk youth. The current study aimed to evaluate the utility of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist Youth Version (PCLYV) for predicting general and violent felony recidivism in a large sample of high-risk, predominantly Hispanic/Latino, male adolescents (n = 254) with a five-year follow-up period. Results indicated higher PCLYV scores and lower full-scale estimated IQ scores were significantly associated with a shorter time to felony and violent felony rearrest. These effects generalized to Hispanic/Latino adolescents (n = 193)-a group that faces disproportionate risk of being detained or committed to juvenile correctional facilities in the U.S. These results suggest that expert-rated measures of psychopathic traits and IQ are reliable predictors of subsequent felony and violent felony rearrest among high-risk male adolescents.
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MEDLINE
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Recidivism
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Juvenile Delinquency
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Adolescent
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol
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2024
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