Dembo Richard, Jainchill Nancy, Turner Charles, Fong Chunki, Farkas Sarah, Childs Kristina
University of South Florida, Department of Criminology, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
Behav Sci Law. 2007;25(5):717-38. doi: 10.1002/bsl.784.
We report the results of a study on psychopathy and its correlates among 203 youths incarcerated in residential commitment programs in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Delaware. Latent class analysis of the psychopathy data identified three classes of youths: low psychopathy, moderate psychopathy, and high psychopathy. Significant differences were found among the three groups in regard to their criminal thinking, delinquency, experience of stressful events, family relationships, and drug use. Conduct disordered, psychopathic youths were the most troubled among the youths studied.
我们报告了一项针对宾夕法尼亚州、俄亥俄州和特拉华州居住教养项目中203名青少年的精神病态及其相关因素的研究结果。对精神病态数据进行的潜在类别分析确定了三类青少年：低精神病态、中度精神病态和高精神病态。在犯罪思维、犯罪行为、应激事件经历、家庭关系和药物使用方面，三组之间存在显著差异。品行障碍的精神病态青少年是所研究青少年中问题最多的。
