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Publication Date: 2004-Dec
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Psychopathy, IQ, and Violence in European American and African American County Jail Inmates
Walsh, Zach; Swogger, Marc T.; Kosson, David S.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v72 n6 p1165-1169 Dec 2004
The accuracy of the prediction of criminal violence may be improved by combining psychopathy with other variables that have been found to predict violence. Research has suggested that assessing intelligence (i.e., IQ) as well as psychopathy improves the accuracy of violence prediction. In the present study, the authors tested this hypothesis by using a contemporary measure of psychopathy, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (R. D. Hare, 2003), in a sample of 326 European American and 348 African American male offenders. The postdictive power of psychopathy was evident for both ethnic groups and robust across most changes in the operationalization of violence and the analysis conducted, whereas the postdictive power of IQ was not. No Psychopathy x IQ interactions were identified. Implications of these results for violence prediction are discussed.
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Crime, Violence, Predictor Variables, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, African Americans, Whites, Males, Psychological Patterns, Prediction
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