Risk Factors in Violent and Nonviolent Offenders

Bibliographic Data

ID13675372
AuthorsPaul M Valliant (Laurentian University, corresponding author), Chantal Gristey (Laurentian University), Derrick Potter (Laurentian University), Robert Kosmyna (Laurentian University)
Year1999
Volume85
Issue2
Pages675-680
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1999.85.2.675
PMID10611797
OpenAlexW2036500296
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

Factors leading to risk for violence were evaluated in an offender population of 36 male offenders including 18 Violent, e.g., assault, threatening and 17 nonviolent (break and enter, theft), and 17 nonoffenders. Their scores on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised, Violence Risk Scale-Experimental Version 1, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-168, and the Porteus Maze tests showed scores for the inmates with violent offenses were elevated on Psychopathic Deviate, Paranoia, Schizophrenia scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, violence risk of the Violence Risk Scale, showed psychopathic orientation on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised, and had a lower test age quotient score on the Porteus Maze test

Aggression · Antisocial personality disorder · California Psychological Inventory · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory · Paranoia · Personality · Personality Assessment Inventory · Poison control · Population · Psychiatry · Psychopathy · Psychopathy Checklist · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub