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Antisocial Constructs in Predicting Institutional Violence among Violent Offenders and Child MolestersPsychology Department Bath Institution PO Box 1500 Bath, Ontario K0H 1G0 Canada
Psychology Department Pittsburgh Institution PO Box 4510 Kingston, Ontario K7L 5E5 Canada This study investigated the ability of self-reported antisocial constructs to predict serious institutional infractions among a correctional sample of child molesters (n = 69) and violent offenders (n = 138). Each group had significant predictors, but the predictors differed between the two groups. Interpersonal problems accounted for significant incremental variance after age in the relationship with institutional violence for child molesters. With the violent offender group, alienation and impulse expression showed significant incremental variance after accounting for age. Alienation and impulse expression also added to age in the relationship with the function of failure over time for the most institutionally disruptive. Implications for institutional classification and clinical use in an offender population are discussed.
Key Words: violence offenders prediction
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 47, No. 3,
324-334 (2003) |
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