Pederson Casey A, Griffith Rebecca L, Nowalis Sarah, Fite Paula J
Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics Adolescent, Behavioral Health Research Program, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2022 Sep 18;30(5):713-736. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2022.2116609. eCollection 2023.
A rich line of criminological theories and research has suggested that individual characteristics may be important to predicting criminal activity. However, there is limited research examining how individual characteristics may be related to the type of crime committed (e.g. violent, sex, drug). To provide guidance to these questions, the current set of two studies used latent profile analysis to identify groups of offenders based on individual factors (i.e. proactive and reactive aggression, and callous-unemotional traits), chosen for their interrelatedness and their established associations with crime, and examined whether these groups relate to type, severity or the number of crimes committed across two studies. In both studies, four groups of offenders were identified, but these groups were not associated with offending behaviors or patterns. Findings and implications are discussed.
一系列丰富的犯罪学理论和研究表明，个体特征对于预测犯罪活动可能很重要。然而，关于个体特征如何与所犯罪行的类型（例如暴力犯罪、性犯罪、毒品犯罪）相关的研究却很有限。为了为这些问题提供指导，当前的两项研究使用潜在剖面分析，根据个体因素（即主动性和反应性攻击以及冷酷无情特质）识别犯罪者群体，选择这些因素是因为它们之间的相互关联性以及它们与犯罪已确立的关联，并在两项研究中考察了这些群体是否与犯罪类型、严重程度或犯罪数量有关。在两项研究中，均识别出了四组犯罪者，但这些群体与犯罪行为或模式并无关联。对研究结果及其影响进行了讨论。
