The Prediction of Violence with Psychological Tests

Megargee, Edwin I.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-153502-5.50009-6

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“…In view of previous research (Megargee, 1970), there was strong reason to doubt that homicide offenders as a group could be distinguished from the nonviolent controls; however, the two subgroups of homicide offenders might be distinguishable from one another. Therefore, groups were contrasted by two orthogonal comparisons: homicide (crime and conflict combined) versus nonviolent control groups, and crime versus conflict groups.…”

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MMPI profiles of adolescents charged with homicide

Cornell

Miller

Benedek³

1988

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Megargee (1970) argued against the global comparison of violent and nonviolent subjects with psychological test data. He contended that clinically meaningful distinctions within groups of violent subjects were critical to elucidating the psychological factors associated with violent behavior. Otherwise, the heterogeneity of violent subjects would obscure differences between nonviolent subjects and violent subgroups.~~ ~

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MMPI profiles of adolescents charged with homicide

Cornell

Miller

Benedek³

1988

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…Parce qu'un grand nombre d'articles ont été publiés sur ce sujet et qu'il existe plusieurs excellentes revues de la littérature (ex. Megargee, 1970;Monahan, 1981), nous ne tenterons pas de revoir de façon exhaustive la littérature ayant trait aux études de prédiction à posteriori.…”

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“…Très peu d'études ont tenté de prédire quels individus commettraient des délits de violence dans l'avenir. Megargee (1970; a fait l'inventaire de la littérature sur la prédiction du comportement violent à partir de tests psychologiques et en a conclu qu'aucun test n'est reconnu actuellement comme étant valable en prédiction.…”

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Politique institutionnelle de libération : identification des individus dangereux. Une revue de la littérature

Quinsey¹

2005

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Follow-up studies of the physical dangerousness of men released from correctional institutions, mental hospitals and special security psychiatric institutions have indicated that we cannot as yet predict with an acceptable degree of accuracy which men will be dangerous upon release. Because of the methodological and conceptual weaknesses of these predictive studies and their lack of success, as well as the practical difficulties which would arise from not attempting to select nondangerous men for release, a new approach to the problem of prediction is required. Such an approach might profitably make predictions according to how different sorts of offenders respond to various situations. Theories taking into account the interactions between persons and their environment may in future allow tolerably accurate predictions of future assaultive behavior under certain circumscribed conditions.

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“…Ainsi, Megargee (1970), ayant évalué la valeur prédictive de plusieurs tests psychologiques, observe qu'aucun ne peut identifier, même à posteriori, la dangerosité.…”

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