Psychopathic personality: Bridging the gap between scientific evidence and public policy

JL Skeem, DLL Polaschek, CJ Patrick… - … Science in the …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Few psychological concepts evoke simultaneously as much fascination and
misunderstanding as psychopathic personality, or psychopathy. Typically, individuals with …

An overview of the literature on sexual harassment: Perpetrator, theory, and treatment issues

A Pina, TA Gannon, B Saunders - Aggression and violent behavior, 2009 - Elsevier
Sexual harassment has been recognized as a serious problem in the literature over the past
30 years. In this paper, we review the existing research surrounding the phenomenon of …

Risk factors for sexual aggression in young men: An expansion of the confluence model

A Abbey, AJ Jacques‐Tiura… - Aggressive behavior, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
There are many explanations for high rates of sexual aggression, with no one theory
dominating the field. This study extends past research by evaluating an expanded version of …

A taxometric analysis of the latent structure of psychopathy: evidence for dimensionality.

JP Guay, J Ruscio, RA Knight… - Journal of Abnormal …, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
The taxonomic status of psychopathy is controversial. Whereas some studies have found
evidence that psychopathy, at least its antisocial component, is distributed as a taxon, others …

Psychopathy is the unified theory of crime

M DeLisi - Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychopathy is an important clinical construct that has been studied for more than 200 years
and has exploded in recent years as a guiding explanatory concept for a range of antisocial …

Inferring sexually deviant behavior from corresponding fantasies: The role of personality and pornography consumption

KM Williams, BS Cooper, TM Howell… - Criminal Justice …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
There is widespread concern that deviant sexual fantasies promote corresponding
behaviors. The authors investigated whether that concern is valid in nonoffender samples …

Rater (dis) agreement on risk assessment measures in sexually violent predator proceedings: Evidence of adversarial allegiance in forensic evaluation?

DC Murrie, MT Boccaccini, DB Turner… - … , Public Policy, and …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Actuarial risk assessment measures are often admitted in court, partly because strong
psychometric properties such as interrater agreement suggest that they increase reliability …

Integrating alternative conceptions of psychopathic personality: A latent variable model of triarchic psychopathy constructs

LE Drislane, CJ Patrick - Journal of personality disorders, 2017 - Guilford Press
This study undertook confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) of data from 567 participants to
quantify constructs specified by the triarchic model of psychopathy (Patrick, Fowles, & …

High-risk sexual offenders: An examination of sexual fantasy, sexual paraphilia, psychopathy, and offence characteristics

M Woodworth, T Freimuth, EL Hutton… - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
High-risk sexual offenders are a complex and heterogeneous group of offenders about
whom researchers, clinicians, and law enforcement agencies still know relatively little. In …