Latent profile analysis of psychopathic traits among homicide, general violent, property, and white-collar offenders

Daniel Boduszek, Agata Debowska and Dominic Willmott

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2017, vol. 51, issue C, 17-23

Abstract: The aim of this study was to identify meaningful subtypes of psychopathic traits among prisoners. Another aim was to estimate the association between psychopathy class membership and type of offending (homicide, general violent, property, and white-collar offences).

Keywords: Psychopathy; Psychopathic personality traits scale (PPTS); Latent profile analysis; Type of offenders; Prison study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.06.001

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