Field reliability of the psychopathy checklist-revised among life sentenced prisoners in Sweden

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 315-324

  Sturup, Joakim ^a   Edens, John F ^b   Sörman, Karolina ^a,b   Karlberg, Daniel ^a   Fredriksson, Björn ^a   Kristiansson, Marianne ^a  

^a Department of Forensic Psychiatry in Stockholm National Board of Forensic Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

forensic assessment; intraclass correlation; PCL R; psychopathy; reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWEDEN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRISONERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84905698388     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000063     Document Type: Article

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