Psychopathy (PCL-R) predicts violent recidivism among criminal offenders with personality disorders in Sweden

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-217

  Grann, Martin ^a,b   Långström, Niklas ^a   Tengström, Anders ^a   Kullgren, Gunnar ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Division of Forensic Psychiatry   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; RECIDIVISM; RECURRENCE RISK; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SWEDEN; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIME; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0344223374     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022372902241     Document Type: Review

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