Stephen D Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1663387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1027-6081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks
In recent years, political events have reignited contentious debates about psychiatry and democratic governance. This discourse has largely centred around the ethics and morality of public commentary, particularly in relation to the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule. Yet, few studies have examined the practical implications of health-related limitations due to mental illness in national leadership and the constitutional and legal …
An Economic Analysis of Crime Costs Associated with Psychopathic Personality Disorder and Violence Risk
Given substantial national crime costs and that psychopathic personality disorder (PPD) is a robust predictor of recidivism, a research gap exists concerning the cost of crime attributable to adults with PPD. The current study employed a bottom-up cost of illness approach to estimate the association between PPD and crime costs among Canadian men incarcerated in the federal correctional system ( n = 188). Participants were rated using the Psychopa…
Evaluating the Test Validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Symptom Rating Sale (Capp SRS)
The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Symptom Rating Scale (CAPP SRS) is a relatively new measure of psychopathic personality disorder (PPD) based on the CAPP concept map of psychopathy. To investigate the CAPP SRS, we identified the most plausible formal test structure for the test using the framework proposed by Slaney and Maraun, identified an appropriate quantitative characterization of that test structure, and then statist…
Interrater Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol for Korean Sexual Offenders: A Field Study
The Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP) is a set of structured professional judgment guidelines for conducting management-oriented sexual violence risk assessments. We investigated the interrater reliability (IRR) and the concurrent validity of the RSVP in the Republic of Korea. A total of 32 experienced and specially trained correctional psychologists in teams of four used an authorized translation of the RSVP to independently assess 47 adu…
Interrater reliability, concurrent validity, and predictive validity of the risk for sexual violence protocol
OBJECTIVE: This study empirically evaluated risk judgments made using the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP; Hart et al., 2003), a widely used set of structured professional guidelines for assessing and managing sexual violence risk. HYPOTHESIS: Based on evaluations of other structured professional judgment guidelines, we hypothesized that judgments made using the RSVP would demonstrate good interrater reliability, concurrent validity, and …
Death is different: Reply to Olver et al. (2020)
Statement of concerned experts on the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised in capital sentencing to assess risk for institutional violence
Are Psychopathic Traits Associated with Core Social Networks? An Exploratory Study in University Students
In a sample of 480 university students, we examined associations between self-ratings of psychopathic traits, made using the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP), the Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Short Form (PPI: SF), and self-ratings of the structure of their core social networks (i.e., best friends, intimates). Results indicated that higher self-ratings of domains (CAPP) and subscales (PPI: SF) related to interpers…
Comparing the lexical similarity of the triarchic model of psychopathy to contemporary models of psychopathy
OBJECTIVE: The triarchic model of psychopathy (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009) posits that psychopathic personality comprises three domains: boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. The present study aimed to clarify conceptual overlap between contemporary definitions of psychopathy, with particular emphasis given to the relevance of boldness (i.e., social dominance, venturesomeness, emotional resiliency)-a topic of recent debate. METHOD: Undergr…
The Taxonic Latent Structure and Taxometrics in Forensic Mental Health
Recently, researchers in the field of forensic mental health have attempted to address the technical, empirical question of whether important clinical problems, such as psychopathy or malingering, constitute taxa (i.e., discrete conditions). In this paper, we provide a detailed elucidation of the foundational logic of the quantitative methods employed to answer this question, focusing on the taxometric procedures developed by Paul Meehl and colle…
The role of symptoms of psychopathy in persistent violence over the criminal career into full adulthood
Can the causal mechanisms underlying chronic, serious, and violent offending trajectories be elucidated using the psychopathy construct
The role of psychopathic traits and developmental risk factors on offending trajectories from early adolescence to adulthood: A prospective study of incarcerated youth
Psychopathic traits and offending trajectories from early adolescence to adulthood
Clinical and Forensic Issues in the Assessment of PsychopathyThe authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of James F. Hemphill to the previous version of this chapter.
Due to the fact that psychopathy is prevalent in forensic settings and potentially relevant to a wide range of legal issues, particularly violence risk, the assessment of psychopathy is a fundamental skill for clinical-forensic psychologists. The chapter begins with a discussion of the nature of psychopathy. It then reviews the most commonly used procedures for assessing psychopathy, including diagnostic interviews, self-report questionnaires and…
Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: A meta-analysis
The potential association between psychosis and violence to others has long been debated. Past research findings are mixed and appear to depend on numerous potential moderators. As such, the authors conducted a quantitative review (meta-analysis) of research on the association between psychosis and violence. A total of 885 effect sizes (odds ratios) were calculated or estimated from 204 studies on the basis of 166 independent data sets. The centr…
The Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (Sara) Guide: Reliability and validity in adult male offenders.
We evaluated the reliability and validity of judgments concerning risk for violence made using the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA; Kropp, Hart, Webster, & Eaves, 1994, 1995, 1998). We analyzed SARA ratings in six samples of adult male offenders (total N = 2681). The distribution of ratings indicated that offenders were quite heterogeneous with respect to the presence of individual risk factors and to overall perceived risk. Structura…
Violence risk communication: Implications for research, policy, and practice
Risk communication of violence involves information provided by an assessor to a decision-maker regarding the likelihood that a violent act will be committed by an individual who is being evaluated. It has received relatively little conceptual and empirical attention, in contrast to the increased focus on violence risk factors, outcomes and prediction accuracy seen in research during the last decade. In this article, we offer a number of theoreti…
Conceptualizing and assessing competency to stand trial: Implications and applications of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Model
Conceptualizing and assessing competency to stand trial: Implications and applications of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Model
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Throughout the last decades the so-called Psychology of criminal conduct, which agglutinates scientific knowledge surrounding criminal phenomena, has been taking shape. We can find among the principal fields of interests an explanation for antisocial behaviour where learning theories, analyses of individual characteristics, strain-agression hypotheses, studies on social vinculation and crime, and the analyses of criminal careers are relevant. Thi…
The revised Psychopathy Checklist: Reliability and factor structure.
The revised Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) is a 20-item scale scored from interview and file informa-tion. Analyses of data from 5 prison samples (N = 92 5) and 3 forensic psychiatric samples (N = 356) indicate that the revised PCL resembles its 22-item predecessor in all important respects. It has excellent psychometric properties, and it measures 2 correlated factors that were cross-validated both within and between samples. Correlations between t…
Religion and Changes in Family Patterns
Standards, Expectations, and Interpersonal Influence
One hundred and twenty males and females, participating in same-sex dyads, were assigned at random to one offive treatments: four experimental and one control. Half the subjects in the experimental groups were given better scores at the task than their partners, half received worse scores. In turn, each half was divided into two levels of standards: scores were either definite indication of ability in one person and lack of ability in the other, …
Psychopathic traits and offending trajectories from early adolescence to adulthood
The role of symptoms of psychopathy in persistent violence over the criminal career into full adulthood
Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: A meta-analysis
The potential association between psychosis and violence to others has long been debated. Past research findings are mixed and appear to depend on numerous potential moderators. As such, the authors conducted a quantitative review (meta-analysis) of research on the association between psychosis and violence. A total of 885 effect sizes (odds ratios) were calculated or estimated from 204 studies on the basis of 166 independent data sets. The centr…
The role of psychopathic traits and developmental risk factors on offending trajectories from early adolescence to adulthood: A prospective study of incarcerated youth
Can the causal mechanisms underlying chronic, serious, and violent offending trajectories be elucidated using the psychopathy construct
Statement of concerned experts on the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised in capital sentencing to assess risk for institutional violence
Standards, Expectations, and Interpersonal Influence
One hundred and twenty males and females, participating in same-sex dyads, were assigned at random to one offive treatments: four experimental and one control. Half the subjects in the experimental groups were given better scores at the task than their partners, half received worse scores. In turn, each half was divided into two levels of standards: scores were either definite indication of ability in one person and lack of ability in the other, …
Are Psychopathic Traits Associated with Core Social Networks? An Exploratory Study in University Students
In a sample of 480 university students, we examined associations between self-ratings of psychopathic traits, made using the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP), the Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Short Form (PPI: SF), and self-ratings of the structure of their core social networks (i.e., best friends, intimates). Results indicated that higher self-ratings of domains (CAPP) and subscales (PPI: SF) related to interpers…
Conceptualizing and assessing competency to stand trial: Implications and applications of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Model
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Throughout the last decades the so-called Psychology of criminal conduct, which agglutinates scientific knowledge surrounding criminal phenomena, has been taking shape. We can find among the principal fields of interests an explanation for antisocial behaviour where learning theories, analyses of individual characteristics, strain-agression hypotheses, studies on social vinculation and crime, and the analyses of criminal careers are relevant. Thi…
Religion and Changes in Family Patterns
Standards, Expectations, and Interpersonal Influence
One hundred and twenty males and females, participating in same-sex dyads, were assigned at random to one offive treatments: four experimental and one control. Half the subjects in the experimental groups were given better scores at the task than their partners, half received worse scores. In turn, each half was divided into two levels of standards: scores were either definite indication of ability in one person and lack of ability in the other, …
Religion and Changes in Family Patterns
The revised Psychopathy Checklist: Reliability and factor structure.
The revised Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) is a 20-item scale scored from interview and file informa-tion. Analyses of data from 5 prison samples (N = 92 5) and 3 forensic psychiatric samples (N = 356) indicate that the revised PCL resembles its 22-item predecessor in all important respects. It has excellent psychometric properties, and it measures 2 correlated factors that were cross-validated both within and between samples. Correlations between t…
The Psychology of Criminal Conduct
Throughout the last decades the so-called Psychology of criminal conduct, which agglutinates scientific knowledge surrounding criminal phenomena, has been taking shape. We can find among the principal fields of interests an explanation for antisocial behaviour where learning theories, analyses of individual characteristics, strain-agression hypotheses, studies on social vinculation and crime, and the analyses of criminal careers are relevant. Thi…
Conceptualizing and assessing competency to stand trial: Implications and applications of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Model
Conceptualizing and assessing competency to stand trial: Implications and applications of the MacArthur Treatment Competence Model
Violence risk communication: Implications for research, policy, and practice
Risk communication of violence involves information provided by an assessor to a decision-maker regarding the likelihood that a violent act will be committed by an individual who is being evaluated. It has received relatively little conceptual and empirical attention, in contrast to the increased focus on violence risk factors, outcomes and prediction accuracy seen in research during the last decade. In this article, we offer a number of theoreti…
The Spousal Assault Risk Assessment (Sara) Guide: Reliability and validity in adult male offenders.
We evaluated the reliability and validity of judgments concerning risk for violence made using the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide (SARA; Kropp, Hart, Webster, & Eaves, 1994, 1995, 1998). We analyzed SARA ratings in six samples of adult male offenders (total N = 2681). The distribution of ratings indicated that offenders were quite heterogeneous with respect to the presence of individual risk factors and to overall perceived risk. Structura…
Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: A meta-analysis
The potential association between psychosis and violence to others has long been debated. Past research findings are mixed and appear to depend on numerous potential moderators. As such, the authors conducted a quantitative review (meta-analysis) of research on the association between psychosis and violence. A total of 885 effect sizes (odds ratios) were calculated or estimated from 204 studies on the basis of 166 independent data sets. The centr…
Clinical and Forensic Issues in the Assessment of PsychopathyThe authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of James F. Hemphill to the previous version of this chapter.
Due to the fact that psychopathy is prevalent in forensic settings and potentially relevant to a wide range of legal issues, particularly violence risk, the assessment of psychopathy is a fundamental skill for clinical-forensic psychologists. The chapter begins with a discussion of the nature of psychopathy. It then reviews the most commonly used procedures for assessing psychopathy, including diagnostic interviews, self-report questionnaires and…
Psychopathic traits and offending trajectories from early adolescence to adulthood
The role of symptoms of psychopathy in persistent violence over the criminal career into full adulthood
Can the causal mechanisms underlying chronic, serious, and violent offending trajectories be elucidated using the psychopathy construct
The role of psychopathic traits and developmental risk factors on offending trajectories from early adolescence to adulthood: A prospective study of incarcerated youth
The Taxonic Latent Structure and Taxometrics in Forensic Mental Health
Recently, researchers in the field of forensic mental health have attempted to address the technical, empirical question of whether important clinical problems, such as psychopathy or malingering, constitute taxa (i.e., discrete conditions). In this paper, we provide a detailed elucidation of the foundational logic of the quantitative methods employed to answer this question, focusing on the taxometric procedures developed by Paul Meehl and colle…
Comparing the lexical similarity of the triarchic model of psychopathy to contemporary models of psychopathy
OBJECTIVE: The triarchic model of psychopathy (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009) posits that psychopathic personality comprises three domains: boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. The present study aimed to clarify conceptual overlap between contemporary definitions of psychopathy, with particular emphasis given to the relevance of boldness (i.e., social dominance, venturesomeness, emotional resiliency)-a topic of recent debate. METHOD: Undergr…
Interrater reliability, concurrent validity, and predictive validity of the risk for sexual violence protocol
OBJECTIVE: This study empirically evaluated risk judgments made using the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP; Hart et al., 2003), a widely used set of structured professional guidelines for assessing and managing sexual violence risk. HYPOTHESIS: Based on evaluations of other structured professional judgment guidelines, we hypothesized that judgments made using the RSVP would demonstrate good interrater reliability, concurrent validity, and …
Death is different: Reply to Olver et al. (2020)
Statement of concerned experts on the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised in capital sentencing to assess risk for institutional violence
Are Psychopathic Traits Associated with Core Social Networks? An Exploratory Study in University Students
In a sample of 480 university students, we examined associations between self-ratings of psychopathic traits, made using the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP), the Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Short Form (PPI: SF), and self-ratings of the structure of their core social networks (i.e., best friends, intimates). Results indicated that higher self-ratings of domains (CAPP) and subscales (PPI: SF) related to interpers…
Interrater Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol for Korean Sexual Offenders: A Field Study
The Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP) is a set of structured professional judgment guidelines for conducting management-oriented sexual violence risk assessments. We investigated the interrater reliability (IRR) and the concurrent validity of the RSVP in the Republic of Korea. A total of 32 experienced and specially trained correctional psychologists in teams of four used an authorized translation of the RSVP to independently assess 47 adu…
Evaluating the Test Validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Symptom Rating Sale (Capp SRS)
The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality Symptom Rating Scale (CAPP SRS) is a relatively new measure of psychopathic personality disorder (PPD) based on the CAPP concept map of psychopathy. To investigate the CAPP SRS, we identified the most plausible formal test structure for the test using the framework proposed by Slaney and Maraun, identified an appropriate quantitative characterization of that test structure, and then statist…
Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks
In recent years, political events have reignited contentious debates about psychiatry and democratic governance. This discourse has largely centred around the ethics and morality of public commentary, particularly in relation to the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule. Yet, few studies have examined the practical implications of health-related limitations due to mental illness in national leadership and the constitutional and legal …
An Economic Analysis of Crime Costs Associated with Psychopathic Personality Disorder and Violence Risk
Given substantial national crime costs and that psychopathic personality disorder (PPD) is a robust predictor of recidivism, a research gap exists concerning the cost of crime attributable to adults with PPD. The current study employed a bottom-up cost of illness approach to estimate the association between PPD and crime costs among Canadian men incarcerated in the federal correctional system ( n = 188). Participants were rated using the Psychopa…
Psychology (23 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Personality (11 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Psychopathy (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)