RT Article
T1 Psychopathy and Reoffending Among Incarcerated Women
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 32
IS 6
SP 556
OP 570
A1 Pinheiro, Marina
A1 Gonçalves, Rui Abrunhosa
A1 Cunha, Olga
A2 Gonçalves, Rui Abrunhosa
A2 Cunha, Olga
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1823088880
AB Several studies found that psychopathy is an important predictor of general reoffending/recidivism. However, these conclusions are often based on male samples. This study analyzes the association between psychopathic traits and the four facets of psychopathy (i.e., interpersonal, affective, lifestyle, antisocial) and general reoffending among incarcerated women. The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) was applied to a sample of 63 incarcerated women from Portugal who were retrospectively classified as committed repeated versus first-time offenses. Two separate binary logistic regression analyses were conducted, controlling for age and criminal variables. PCL-R total scores did not postdict reoffending, but sentence length did. As for the four facets, only PCL-R antisocial facet postdicted reoffending. Sentence length was also negatively associated with reoffending. Despite the relationship between PCL-R antisocial facet and general reoffending, results raise some questions regarding the applicability of psychopathy construct in the prediction of reoffending among women.
K1 Reoffending
K1 psychopathy traits
K1 Incarcerated women
K1 Facets of psychopathy
DO 10.1080/08974454.2022.2094525