Vitacco Michael J, Caldwell Michael F, Van Rybroek Gregory J, Gabel Jason
Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, Wisconsin 53704, USA.
Aggress Behav. 2007 Nov-Dec;33(6):537-44. doi: 10.1002/ab.20211.
The study examines delinquent behavior and psychopathy and assesses their relationship to victim injury in a population of 168 incarcerated juvenile delinquent males with lengthy histories of criminal and violent behavior. A series of multiple regressions found that 17% of the variance associated with level of victim injury was accounted for by a model that included the three-factor model of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version [Forth, Kosson, and Hare, 2003], criminal versatility, and age of onset of criminal offending. Notably, anger and DSM-IV symptoms of conduct disorder were not related to level of victim injury. The results of this study support an escalation hypothesis where individuals with earlier onset to criminal behavior and greater criminal versatility escalate to more severe violence. The current results demonstrate the importance of integrating established theories of juvenile delinquency when explaining severe violence in youth.
该研究调查了犯罪行为和心理变态，并评估了它们与168名有长期犯罪和暴力行为历史的被监禁青少年男性受害者受伤情况之间的关系。一系列多元回归分析发现，与受害者受伤程度相关的17%的方差可由一个模型解释，该模型包括《心理变态检查表：青少年版》[福思、科索恩和黑尔，2003年]的三因素模型、犯罪多样性以及犯罪起始年龄。值得注意的是，愤怒和DSM-IV中品行障碍的症状与受害者受伤程度无关。本研究结果支持一种升级假说，即犯罪行为起始较早且犯罪多样性较高的个体升级为更严重暴力行为。当前结果表明，在解释青少年严重暴力行为时，整合既定的青少年犯罪理论具有重要意义。
