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The Personality Assessment Inventory as a proxy for the Psychopathy Checklist Revised: testing the incremental validity and cross-sample robustness of the Antisocial Features ScaleKevin S Douglas
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Assessment 14:255-69. 2007..Results offer limited evidence of convergent validity between the PAI and the PCL-R...- Criminal recidivism among juvenile offenders: testing the incremental and predictive validity of three measures of psychopathic featuresKevin S Douglas
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6
Law Hum Behav 32:423-38. 2008..e., substance use, conduct disorder, young age, past property crime) were included in multivariate predictive models. Implications for the limits of these measures in applied juvenile justice assessment are discussed... - Relation of antisocial and psychopathic traits to suicide-related behavior among offendersKevin S Douglas
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6
Law Hum Behav 32:511-25. 2008..Self-report psychopathy measures added unique predictive variance to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. We discuss implications for suicide risk assessment and prevention... - Reliability and Validity Evaluation of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) in Swedish correctional and forensic psychiatric samplesKevin S Douglas
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Assessment 12:145-61. 2005..The structural reliability and pattern of validity coefficients were comparable in these Swedish samples to other non-North American samples. Implications for the cross-cultural manifestation and correlates of psychopathy are discussed... 
Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysisKevin S Douglas
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6
Psychol Bull 135:679-706. 2009..The authors discuss these findings in light of potential causal models of the association between psychosis and violence, the role of psychosis in violence risk assessment and management, and recommendations for future research...- Correspondence between self-report and interview-based assessments of antisocial personality disorderLaura S Guy
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Psychol Assess 20:47-54. 2008..Levels of agreement of the SCID-II with the PDQ-4 (kappa = .31) and PAI (kappa = .32) in classifying participants as ASPD was limited. Alternative thresholds for both self-report measures were identified and cross-validated... - The inconsistency of inconsistency scales: a comparison of two widely used measuresNatalia L Nikolova
Mental Health, Law and Policy Institute, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Behav Sci Law 30:16-27. 2012..We discuss the implications of our findings for clinical practice, and potential concerns with the use of a single measure to identify inconsistent responding in clinical practice and research... - Does psychopathy predict institutional misconduct among adults? A meta-analytic investigationLaura S Guy
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada
J Consult Clin Psychol 73:1056-64. 2005..S. prison samples (r-sub(w) = .11) than in non-U.S. prison samples (r-sub(w) = .23). Findings are discussed in terms of the utility of the Hare measures for decision-making in institutional and other contexts... - Examining the utility of the PCL:SV as a screening measure using competing factor models of psychopathyLaura S Guy
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Psychol Assess 18:225-30. 2006..42) and PCL:SV (.37). Results indicate the robust relation between the measures is maintained whether they are completed on the basis of file review only or file plus interview and whether the same or different raters score the measures... - Violence against teachers: prevalence and consequencesCatherine M Wilson
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
J Interpers Violence 26:2353-71. 2011..We discuss the implications of violence against teachers in terms of personal consequences and the implications for mental health professionals working in an educational setting... - Assessing risk for violence among male and female civil psychiatric patients: the HCR-20, PCL:SV, and VSCTonia L Nicholls
Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Behav Sci Law 22:127-58. 2004..It is concluded that the VSC is a promising tool for assessing acute inpatient violence risk with men. Findings offer preliminary validation of the predictive validity of the HCR-20 and PCL:SV with female civil psychiatric patients... - Intimate partner abuse of older men: considerations for the assessment of riskKim A Reeves
Simon Fraser University, Department of Psychology, British Columbia, Canada
J Elder Abuse Negl 19:7-27, table of contents. 2007..Implications and future research directions are discussed with regard to the application of risk assessment technology to this context... - Empirical limits for the forensic assessment of PTSD litigantsWilliam J Koch
Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, 2255 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 2A1
Law Hum Behav 29:121-49. 2005..We provide suggestions for improving forensic practice, advising the courts about the limitations of forensic opinions, and necessary research... - Examining the role of interrogative suggestibility in Miranda rights comprehension in adolescentsKaitlyn McLachlan
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Law Hum Behav 35:165-77. 2011..The implications of these findings are discussed... - Youth with psychopathy features are not a discrete class: a taxometric analysisDaniel C Murrie
Sam Houston State University, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:714-23. 2007.... - Evaluation of a model of violence risk assessment among forensic psychiatric patientsKevin S Douglas
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA
Psychiatr Serv 54:1372-9. 2003.... - The impact of confidence on the accuracy of structured professional and actuarial violence risk judgments in a sample of forensic psychiatric patientsKevin S Douglas
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B Downs Blvd, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA
Law Hum Behav 27:573-87. 2003..Findings suggest that confidence of ratings should be studied as a potentially important mediator of structured professional and actuarial risk judgments... - Violence by psychiatric patients: the impact of archival measurement source on violence base rates and risk assessment accuracyKevin S Douglas
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612, USA
Can J Psychiatry 48:734-40. 2003..This study examined the impact of using various archival sources of violence data on the recorded base rate of violence and on the accuracy of violence risk assessments in a sample of civil psychiatric patients... - The relationship between psychopathic features, violence and treatment outcome: the comparison of three youth measures of psychopathic featuresSarah E Spain
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 13301 Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
Behav Sci Law 22:85-102. 2004.... - Internal consistency reliability of the self-report antisocial process screening deviceNorman G Poythress
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, FMHI-USF, Tampa, FL 33612-3807, USA
Assessment 13:107-13. 2006..Suggestions are made for revisions to this scale that would substantially improve its internal consistency reliability... - Assessment of interpersonal aggression and violence: introduction to the special issueJohn F Edens
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
Assessment 13:221-6. 2006..The authors conclude with a summary of the key findings of the articles that appear in this special issue... - Incremental validity analyses of the violence risk appraisal guide and the psychopathy checklist: screening version in a civil psychiatric sampleJohn F Edens
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
Assessment 13:368-74. 2006..These results reflect the limited validity of the VRAG items in civil psychiatric samples beyond the variance that is explained by the PCL:SV alone... - Legal issues in maximum security institutions for people with mental illness: liberty, security, and administrative discretionJohn Petrila
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33617, USA
Behav Sci Law 20:463-80. 2002..The article suggests that because of the diminishing oversight provided by the federal judiciary, institutional custodians have a particular obligation to ensure that individual rights are not overwhelmed by concerns with security... - Self-report measures of child and adolescent psychopathy as predictors of offending in four samples of justice-involved youthMarcus T Boccaccini
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341, USA
Assessment 14:361-74. 2007..The findings suggest caution in the use of self-report measures of psychopathic features for decision making with respect to issues of delinquency risk among justice-involved youth...