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Criminal Psychopathy
A Risk-and-Need Perspective
DAVID J. SIMOURD
Collins Bay Institution
ROBERT D. HOGE
Carleton University
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. 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.
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 27, No. 2,
256-272 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854800027002007

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