Does IQ moderate the relation between psychopathy and juvenile offending?

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-33

  Hampton, Ashley S ^a   Drabick, Deborah A G ^a   Steinberg, Laurence ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; intelligence; juvenile offenders; offending; psychopathy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PRISONER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ARIZONA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PRISONERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84893930558     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000036     Document Type: Article

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