A review and meta-analysis of the psychopathy checklist and psychopathy checklist-revised: Predictive validity of dangerousness

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 203-215

  Salekin, Randall T ^a   Rogers, Richard ^a   Sewell, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dangerousness; Meta analysis; Psychopathy Checklist; Recidivism; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000913576     PISSN: 09695893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2850.1996.tb00071.x     Document Type: Review

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