Objectives

Concerns about the value of features of psychopathy to explanations of offending may be driven by challenges with testing this relationship as opposed to the construct’s limited predictive validity. The current study introduced psychopathology network modeling as an analytic strategy capable of addressing these challenges through a more nuanced description of the structural and statistical association between features of psychopathy and offending. To provide more direct implications for criminological theory and research, this included examining whether within-individual changes in features of psychopathy were associated with within-individual change in offending.

Methods

Data on male and female young offenders from the Pathways to Desistance Study (n = 1354) were used to examine the association between features of psychopathy and offending versatility, as measured by the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory and the Self Report of Offending scale, respectively. Three network structures were modeled that separated the variance in the relationship between features of psychopathy and offending into between-subjects and within-individual networks.

Results

Between-subjects and within-individual analyses indicated that interpersonal and affective features of psychopathy were positively associated with offending versatility. The network approach indicated that remorselessness and manipulativeness were central features of psychopathy that were also associated with offending versatility. Remorselessness in particular helped bridge together conceptually distinct features of psychopathy.

Conclusions

Psychopathology network modeling illustrated the value of features of psychopathy to mainstream criminological theory and research. These features included interpersonal and affective deficits, which previously were identified as poor predictors of offending outcomes.

中文翻译：

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基于网络的精神病和犯罪多功能性之间纵向关联的检查

目标

对精神病特征对解释犯罪的价值的担忧可能是由于测试这种关系的挑战而不是结构的有限预测有效性。当前的研究引入了精神病理学网络建模作为一种分析策略，能够通过更细致地描述精神病特征与犯罪特征之间的结构和统计关联来应对这些挑战。为了对犯罪学理论和研究提供更直接的影响，这包括检查个体内部精神病特征的变化是否与个体内部的犯罪变化有关。

方法

来自戒毒途径研究 ( n  = 1354) 的男性和女性年轻犯罪者的数据用于检查精神病特征与犯罪多功能性之间的关联，分别通过青年精神病特征量表和犯罪自我报告量表来衡量。三个网络结构被建模，将精神病特征与冒犯之间关系的差异分为受试者之间和个体内部网络。

结果

受试者之间和个体内部的分析表明，精神病的人际交往和情感特征与冒犯性的多功能性呈正相关。网络方法表明，无情和操纵性是精神病的核心特征，也与冒犯性的多功能性有关。无情尤其有助于将精神病的概念上不同的特征联系在一起。

结论

精神病理学网络模型说明了精神病学特征对主流犯罪学理论和研究的价值。这些特征包括人际关系和情感缺陷，这些缺陷以前被认为是对冒犯结果的不良预测。