Psychopathic personality features and risks for criminal justice system involvement among emancipating foster youth

New frontiers in criminal careers research, 2000–2011: A state-of-the-art review

“…Psychopathy likely serves as a catalyst to explain the heterotypic continuity and overall life failure that is characteristic of persons with high-rate criminal careers (Raine et al, 2005;Vaughn, Litschge, et al, 2008;Vaughn, Newhill, et al, 2008). In a longitudinal study, Ullrich, Farrington, and Coid (2008) found that psychopathic personality features were negatively associated with status, wealth, and successful interpersonal and intimate relationships.…”

Fledgling Psychopathy in the Classroom: ADHD Subtypes, Psychopathy, and Reading Comprehension in a Community Sample of Adolescents

“…This was in addition to the most severe CP and highest self-reported delinquency. Overall, researchers using diverse analytical techniques on different research groups have linked CU traits to antisocial behavior and related maladaptive outcomes among samples of foster care youths (Vaughn, DeLisi, Beaver, & Wright, 2009a; Vaughn, Litschge, DeLisi, Beaver, & McMillen, 2008), clinic-referred samples of male children and adolescents (Burke, Loeber, & Lahey, 2007), community samples of high school students (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2006), community samples of high-risk youths (Pardini, Obradović, & Loeber, 2006), and correctional samples of institutionalized delinquents (Caputo, Frick, & Brodsky, 1999; Pardini, Lochman, & Frick, 2003; Vaughn & DeLisi, 2008; Vaughn, DeLisi, Beaver, Wright, & Howard, 2007). …”

Psychopathy in Adolescence Predicts Official Reports of Offending in Adulthood

“…For example, Gretton et al (2004) controlled for conduct disorder, age at first offenses, and history of violent and nonviolent offending; they failed to control for contextual and familial factors believed to be important. Similarly, Vaughn et al (2008) controlled for race, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, substance abuse, family support, childhood trauma, neighborhood disorder, and deviant peers; they did not include other potentially relevant individual difference variables such as intelligence or impulsivity. The article by Salekin included the most comprehensive set of control variables including race, education, an intelligence screening test, past charges, school absences and tardies, family structure, delinquent peers, and several dichotomous variables assessing whether the mother and father worked, whether the mother or father had ever been arrested, and whether the youth had ever used drugs.…”