Inter-rater reliability of the PCL-R total and factor scores among psychopathic sex offenders: Are personality features more prone to disagreement than behavioral features?

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 106-119

  Edens, John F ^b   Boccaccini, Marcus T ^a   Johnson, Darryl W ^a  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPATHY; SEXUAL CRIME;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX OFFENSES;

EID: 76149104294     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.918     Document Type: Article

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