RT Article
T1 The Iowa Gambling Task in Violent and Nonviolent Incarcerated Male Adolescents
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 46
IS 11
SP 1611
OP 1629
A1 Umbach, Rebecca
A1 Laitner, Christina
A1 Leonard, Noelle R.
A1 Ling, Shichun
A1 Luciana, Monica
A2 Laitner, Christina
A2 Leonard, Noelle R.
A2 Ling, Shichun
A2 Luciana, Monica
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1703726162
AB Previous studies have found impaired affective decision-making, as measured by the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), in various antisocial populations. This is the first study to compare the IGT in violent and nonviolent incarcerated American youth. The IGT was administered to 185 incarcerated adolescent male offenders charged with either nonviolent (38.4%) or violent (61.6%) crimes. General linear mixed models and t tests were used to assess differences between the groups. The full sample performed worse than if they had selected from the decks at random. The violent offenders performed more poorly than the nonviolent offenders overall, primarily because they preferred “disadvantageous” Deck B to a greater degree; however, they did demonstrate some degree of learning by the final block of the task. Adolescent offenders demonstrate impaired affective decision-making. Behavior suggested preferential attention to frequency of loss and amount of gain and inattention to amount of loss.
K1 Incarceration
K1 Violence
K1 Juvenile Offenders
K1 Decision-making
K1 Antisocial Behavior
K1 Adolescence
DO 10.1177/0093854819847707