Does psychopathy predict institutional misconduct among adults?: A meta-analytic investigation
2005 (English)In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, ISSN 0022-006X, E-ISSN 1939-2117, Vol. 73, no 6, p. 1056-1064Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Narrative reviews have raised several questions regarding the predictive validity of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; R. D. Hare, 2003) and related scales in institutional settings. In this meta-analysis, the authors coded 273 effect sizes to investigate the association between the Hare scales and a hierarchy of increasingly specific forms of institutional misconduct. Effect sizes for Total, Factor 1, and Factor 2 scores were quite heterogeneous overall and weakest for physically violent misconduct (r w = .17, .14, and .15, respectively). Moderator analyses suggested that physical violence effect sizes were smaller in U.S. prison samples (r w = .11) than in non-U.S. prison samples (r w = .23). Findings are discussed in terms of the utility of the Hare measures for decision-making in institutional and other contexts.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2005. Vol. 73, no 6, p. 1056-1064
Keywords [en]
Institutional misconduct, Meta-analysis, Psychopathy, Violence
National Category
Law and Society
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-28920DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.73.6.1056ISI: 000234576600007PubMedID: 16392979Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-31544481379OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-28920DiVA, id: diva2:1033195
Conference
Annual Conference of the American-Psychology-and-Law-Society, Scottsdale 2004
2016-10-062016-09-272020-07-07Bibliographically approved