EVADING JUSTICE Quantifying Criminal Success in Incarcerated Psychopathic Offenders
EVADING JUSTICE Quantifying Criminal Success in Incarcerated Psychopathic Offenders
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DOI：
10.1177/0093854812463565
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Kiehl, Kent A.
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作者：
Aharoni, Eyal;Kiehl, Kent A.
“成功的精神病患者”被认为逃避科学研究，因为大多数法医精神病研究仅限于被监禁的——假定是不成功的——样本。通过将犯罪成功重新定义为过去未被发现的犯罪的比例，本研究在被监禁的样本中验证了精神病特征与犯罪成功相关的假设（N = 307）。使用《Hare精神病检查表-修订版》评估精神病。采用保密的半结构化访谈，通过自我报告对24起暴力和非暴力犯罪的犯罪史进行回顾性评估。控制社会期望得分，最大的犯罪成功与中度到高的精神病得分相关，特别是暴力犯罪。在特质水平上，反社会生活方式和行为性精神病特质预测犯罪成功率增加，而情感性精神病特质预测犯罪成功率降低。这些结果表明，犯罪成功可以通过监禁样本进行有意义的评估，并可以为精神病模型提供信息。
The "successful psychopath" is thought to evade scientific study because most forensic psychopathy research is limited to incarcerated-putatively unsuccessful-samples. By redefining criminal success as the proportion of past undetected crimes, the present study tested the hypothesis that psychopathic traits are associated with criminal success within an incarcerated sample (N = 307). Psychopathy was assessed using the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. Criminal history was assessed retrospectively for 24 violent and nonviolent crimes via self-report using a confidential semistructured interview. Controlling for social desirability score, greatest criminal success was associated with moderate to high psychopathy scores, particularly for violent crimes. At the trait level, antisocial lifestyle and behavioral psychopathic traits predicted increased criminal success, whereas affective psychopathic traits predicted decreased criminal success. These results suggest that criminal success can be meaningfully evaluated using an incarcerated sample and can inform models of psychopathy.