Identifying psychopathic subtypes: Combining an empirical personality classification of offenders with the Psychopathy Checklist-revised

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 604-622

  Blackburn, Ronald ^a   Logan, Caroline ^a   Donnelly, John P ^b   Renwick, Stanley J D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b The State Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c Duchess of Kent S Psychiatric Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPATHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 60549109318     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 0885579X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2008.22.6.604     Document Type: Article

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