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Psychopathy as a Predictor of Institutional Misbehavior Among Sex Offenders: A Prospective Replication

Sam Houston State University

John F. Edens

Sam Houston State University

Darryl W. Johnson

Sam Houston State University

Judy K. Johnson

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

This study compares the utility of two measures of psychopathic traits, the Antisocial Features(ANT) scale of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised(PCL-R), to predict serious institutional misconduct among incarcerated sex offenders over a 2-year follow-up period. Archival disciplinary data for 58 offenders were classified as majorinfractions involving physical aggression, verbal aggression/acts of defiance, or nonaggressiveoffenses. Significant correlations were obtained between both measures of psychopathy andeach type of disciplinary offense except physical aggression, the occurrence of which was rare inthis sample. Regression analyses indicated that each measure accounted for unique—or incremental-variance in one of the criterion measures. Overall classification accuracy based onstandard cut scores was somewhat more positive for ANT than for the PCL-R.

Key Words: institutional adjustment • psychopathy • sex offenders • risk assessment

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