RT Article
T1 Skewed Perceptions: Psychopathy and Systematic Biases of Risk and Reward from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood
JF Journal of developmental and life-course criminology
VO 6
IS 3
SP 296
OP 320
A1 Altikriti, Sultan
A2 Nedelec, Joseph L.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1750715554
AB Scholarship on perceptions of risk and reward of criminal behavior illustrates a substantial impact of individual differences on the decision to offend given a perceived opportunity. The current study extends this literature with a longitudinal assessment of the systematic effects of psychopathic personality traits on perceptions of offending., Multivariate regression analyses using a sample of adjudicated delinquents from the Pathways to Desistance study (n = 987) were employed to estimate the association between psychopathic personality traits and perceptions of offending in adolescence and emerging adulthood., Results indicated that individuals who scored higher on psychopathic personality traits reported higher perceptions conducive to crime in both adolescence and emerging adulthood., Identifying personality characteristics that affect perceptions of offending has important implications for deterrence and other criminological theories that rely on the perceptions of risk. The current study identified psychopathic personality traits as one source of individual differences in perceptions.
K1 Risk
K1 Punishment
K1 Psychopathy
K1 Perceptions
K1 Deterrence
K1 Deterrability
DO 10.1007/s40865-020-00140-w