Youth psychopathy and criminal recidivism: A meta-analysis of the psychopathy checklist measures
Youth psychopathy and criminal recidivism: A meta-analysis of the psychopathy checklist measures
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DOI：
10.1007/s10979-006-9019-y
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发表时间：
2007-02-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Weir, John M.
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作者：
Edens, John F.;Campbell, Justin S.;Weir, John M.
虽然叙述性评论表明，“青年精神病”是未来犯罪和暴力的一个强有力的预测因素，但迄今为止，还没有对这一文献进行定量总结。我们荟萃分析了21个非重叠样本的男性和女性青少年罪犯的精神病检查表措施的累犯数据。剔除异常值后，精神病与一般和暴力累犯显著相关（r（w）分别为0.24和0.25），但在少数研究中，与性累犯的相关性可忽略不计。然而，即使在消除离群值之后，也注意到效应之间存在相当大的异质性，其中一些变异性可以用样本的性别和种族组成来解释。可用于分析的少量女性样本的效应大小大多较小且不显著，精神病是种族异质性样本中暴力累犯的较弱预测因子。在预测一般和暴力累犯方面，精神病患者对专门设计用于评估风险的工具进行了评估，即青年服务水平/案件管理清单（Hoge & Andrews，2002）。
Although narrative reviews have suggested that "youth psychopathy" is a strong predictor of future crime and violence, to date no quantitative summaries of this literature have been conducted. We meta-analyzed recidivism data for the Psychopathy Checklist measures across 21 non-overlapping samples of male and female juvenile offenders. After removing outliers, psychopathy was significantly associated with general and violent recidivism (r (w)'s of .24 and .25, respectively), but negligibly related to sexual recidivism in the few studies examining this low base rate outcome. Even after eliminating outliers, however, considerable heterogeneity was noted among the effects, with some of this variability being explained by the gender and ethnic composition of the samples. Effect sizes for the small number of female samples available for analysis were mostly small and nonsignificant, and psychopathy was a weaker predictor of violent recidivism among more ethnically heterogeneous samples. In relation to predicting both general and violent recidivism, psychopathy performed comparably to an instrument designed specifically to assess risk, the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (Hoge & Andrews, 2002).