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Dissertation
Legislative exclusion statutes and psychopathy: balancing rehabilitation ideals and retribution goals with juvenile offenders
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University; Villanova University, School of Law
Aug 1999
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00008241
Abstract
This study compared the marginal utility of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) and a legislative exclusion-juvenile transfer statute in predicting subsequent violent crimes committed by juvenile offenders. Social and emotional files maintained on 117 juvenile offenders (age 15-18) arrested in 1994 were examined to complete file review scores on the PCL:YV and to assess the impact of the 1996 juvenile transfer statute on the 1994 charges for each juvenile offender. Follow-up data for the years 1994-1997 were available to record subsequent contacts with the criminal justice system. Hierarchical logistic regression analyses revealed that the strongest predictor of subsequent contact with the criminal justice system was the number of prior contacts with the juvenile justice system. Although neither the PCL:YV nor the legislative exclusion-juvenile transfer statute contributed to the prediction model, results suggested that the PCL:YV scores possessed greater predictive utility under defined circumstances. Additional analyses revealed that the PCL:YV is a reliable instrument when a file review only procedure is used. Further analyses indicated that the legislative exclusion-juvenile transfer statute identified juveniles arrested with a deadly weapon and failed to identify juveniles with a history of violent offenses.
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- Title
- Legislative exclusion statutes and psychopathy
- Creators
- Lawrence D. Dodds
- Awarding Institution
- Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University; Villanova University, School of Law
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
- Publisher
- Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University; Villanova University, School of Law; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Number of pages
- xii, 158 pages
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University (1993-1996, 1998-2002); Clinical and Health Psychology [Historical]; School of Health Professions (1998-2000)
- Other Identifier
- 991021888720004721