Clarifying the link between childhood abuse history and psychopathic traits in adult criminal offenders.

Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment Clarifying the Link Between Childhood Abuse History and Psychopathic Traits in Adult Criminal Offenders

Psychopathic traits in adolescent offenders: an evaluation of criminal history, clinical, and psychosocial correlates.

Although a large body of research has established the relevance of psychopathy to adult offenders, its relevance to adolescent offenders is far less clear. The current study evaluated the clinical, psychosocial and criminal correlates of psychopathic traits in a sample of 226 male and female incarcerated adolescent offenders. According to an 18-item version of the Psychopathy Checklist-Youth Ve...

Offenders with antisocial personality disorder show attentional bias for violence-related stimuli.

Offenders with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) may be characterized by a lack in emotional functioning that manifests in irritability and a lack of remorse. The proposed link between ASPD and negative emotionality led to the question of emotional processing anomalies in ASPD. Furthermore, the effect of childhood maltreatment/abuse on emotional processing was tested in the present study. ...

Traumatic experiences in childhood and psychopathy: a study on a sample of violent offenders from Italy

BACKGROUND The link between early traumatic experiences of abuse/neglect and criminal behaviour has been widely demonstrated. Less is known, however, about the relationship between these experiences and the development of psychopathic personality. OBJECTIVE This study investigated childhood relational trauma in a group of violent offenders from Italy. We hypothesised a higher level of early r...

Age at onset of substance abuse: a crucial covariate of psychopathic traits and aggression in adult offenders.

To examine age at onset of substance abuse in relation to other factors of relevance to criminal behavior, we compared Life History of Aggression (LHA) scores, traits of psychopathy according to the Psychopathy Checklist--Revised (PCL-R), and violent recidivism in 100 violent offenders with early (before the age of 18) versus late onset of abuse or dependence. Of 56 subjects with a history of a...