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| Kevin S DouglasSummaryAffiliation: University of South Florida Country: USA Publications
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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... 
Using the PCL-R to help estimate the validity of two self-report measures of psychopathy with offendersNorman G Poythress
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
Assessment 17:206-19. 2010..Results generally provide stronger support for the validity of the PPI than the LPSP in offender populations using the PCL-R as a provisional benchmark, particularly for assessing interpersonal and affective features of psychopathy...- Suicidal and criminal behavior among female offenders: the role of abuse and psychopathologyEva R Kimonis
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
J Pers Disord 24:581-609. 2010..However, none of the measures-including the PCL-R-predicted future recidivism... - Co-occurring mental health and substance use problems in offenders: implications for risk assessmentMark A Ruiz
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Psychol Assess 24:77-87. 2012..The frequency with which suicide and aggression risk factors were associated with mental health problems was generally similar across men and women. Measurement issues relevant to co-occurring disorder and risk assessment are discussed... - Factor structure and correlates of the dissociative experiences scale in a large offender sampleMark A Ruiz
University of South Florida, Florida, USA
Assessment 15:511-21. 2008..These findings support the reliability and construct validity of the DES in offenders but raise questions regarding the clinical utility of the DES factor scores above and beyond that of the total score... - Identifying subtypes among offenders with antisocial personality disorder: a cluster-analytic studyNorman G Poythress
Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612 3806, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:389-400. 2010..Our results inform ongoing debates about the overlap between psychopathy and ASPD and raise questions about the wisdom of placing most individuals who habitually violate social norms and laws into a single diagnostic category... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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...