Score metric equivalence of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) across criminal offenders in North America and the United Kingdom: A critique of cooke, michie, hart, and clark (2005) and new analyses

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Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-56

  Bolt, Daniel M ^a,d   Hare, Robert D ^b   Neumann, Craig S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d Department of Educational Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Differential item functioning; Item response theory; PCL R; Psychopathy; Psychopathy Checklist Revised

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIMINAL LAW; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPATHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINAL LAW; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33846880697     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191106293505     Document Type: Article

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