Moral judgement, cognitive distortions and empathy in incarcerated delinquent and community control adolescents

Lardén, Martin; Melin, Lennart; Holst, Ulrika; Långström, Niklas

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“…This was true for both the adults and the adolescents and in line with previous research on adolescents (e.g. Barriga et al, 2001;Lardén et al, 2006). Consequently, the discriminant validity of the HIT was supported for the studied groups.…”

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“…Interestingly, the adolescent groups showed more self-serving cognitive distortions than the adult groups. One possible explanation to this phenomenon could be that the adults had developed more mature moral judgments, as Lardén et al (2006) have previously shown a moderate relationship between socio-moral reasoning and self-serving cognitive distortions. Johnstone and Cooke (2004) suggest that antisocial behavior and egocentricism are more characteristic in youth than in adults due to transient developmental states, which would be in line with adolescents exhibiting more self-serving cognitive distortions than adults.…”

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“…For a detailed description of the procedure in the adolescent groups, see Lardén et al (2006). Nine institutions for juvenile delinquents run by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care were approached, all of which agreed to participate.…”

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“…The mean age of the incarcerated adolescents was 15.8 years (range 14-18) and that of the non-incarcerated adolescents 15.2 years (range 13-18). Data from the adolescent groups has previously been reported by Lardén, Melin, Holst, and Långström (2006 (Barriga, Gibbs, Potter & Liau, 2001) is a 54-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure self-serving cognitive distortions. Participants respond on a six-point Likert scale (from ''agree strongly'' to ''disagree strongly''), with Barriga & Gibbs, 1996;Barriga, Hawkins & Camelia, 2008;Nas, Brugman & Koops, 2008) for adolescent samples within various contexts.…”

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Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions and Antisocial Behavior Among Adults and Adolescents

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The reliability and validity of the self-report questionnaire How I Think (HIT), designed to assess self-serving cognitive distortions related to antisocial behavior, was tested among Swedish offender and nonoffender adults and adolescents ( N = 364). The results showed self-serving distortions to be more common among offenders and to predict self-reported antisocial behavior when tested among adults. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed, in contrast to earlier findings, that the underlying structure of the HIT was best explained by a three-factor solution with one major cognitive factor, referred to as “criminal mind.” It was concluded that the HIT, after further examination of its structural and divergent validity, could be used as a measure of criminal thinking in adults as well as in adolescents.

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“…To date, there exists no preexisting theory to label and explain specific types of empathic behaviour displayed by police officers during interviews with sex offenders (or indeed any type of offender), and the limited amount of published research has employed a broad operational definition of empathy (see also Oxburgh & Ost, 2011;Oxburgh et al, 2012;Oxburgh et al, 2015). Given that empathy is a complex and multifaceted cognitive and social phenomenon (e.g., Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004;Larden, Melin, Holst, & Langstrom, 2006), grounded theory was employed to label types of empathy in the first instance.…”

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Empathy in the field: Towards a taxonomy of empathic communication in information gathering interviews with suspected sex offenders

Dando

Oxburgh

2016

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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a b s t r a c tResearch suggests that those suspected of sexual offending might be more willing to reveal information about their crimes if interviewers display empathic behaviour. However, the literature concerning investigative empathy is in its infancy, and so as yet is not well understood. This study explores empathy in a sample of real-life interviews conducted by police officers in England with suspected sex offenders. Using qualitative methodology, the presence and type of empathic verbal behaviours displayed was examined. Resulting categories were quantitatively analysed to investigate their occurrence overall, and across interviewer gender. We identified four distinct types of empathy, some of which were used significantly more often than others. Female interviewers displayed more empathic behaviour per se by a considerable margin. La empatía sobre el terreno: hacia una taxonomía de la comunicación empática en las entrevistas para recoger información de presuntos agresores sexuales Palabras clave: Delincuentes sexuales Entrevista de investigación Empatía Recopilación de información r e s u m e n La investigación indica que las personas sospechosas de agresión sexual podrían estar más dispuestas a revelar información sobre sus delitos si los entrevistadores muestran un comportamiento empático. No obstante, los estudios sobre la empatía en la investigación están aún en mantillas, por lo que aún no se entiende bien. Este estudio explora la empatía en una muestra de entrevistas en la vida real realizadas por agentes de policía en Inglaterra con presuntos delincuentes sexuales. Se analizó mediante metodología cualitativa la presencia y el tipo de comportamientos verbales empáticos mostrados. Las categorías obtenidas se analizaron cuantitativamente con el fin de investigar su aparición global y en función del sexo del entrevistador. Se identificaron cuatro tipos diferentes de empatía, algunos de ellos utilizados con más frecuencia que otros. Las entrevistadoras mostraron mayor comportamiento empático per se por un margen considerable. Interviews conducted by police officers with a person suspected of wrongdoing 1 are complex social interactions during which interviewers are tasked with gathering information about 1 From here on 'suspects' is used to describe people who are suspected of having committed an offence, and who are being formally investigated.http://dx

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Moral Cognitions and Prosocial Responding in Adolescence

Eisenberg¹,

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McDaniel³

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Handbook of Adolescent Psychology

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Moral judgement, cognitive distortions and empathy in incarcerated delinquent and community control adolescents

Cited by 81 publications

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Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions and Antisocial Behavior Among Adults and Adolescents

Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions and Antisocial Behavior Among Adults and Adolescents

Empathy in the field: Towards a taxonomy of empathic communication in information gathering interviews with suspected sex offenders

Moral Cognitions and Prosocial Responding in Adolescence

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