Purpose

Scholarship on perceptions of risk and reward of criminal behavior illustrates a substantial impact of individual differences on the decision to offend given a perceived opportunity. The current study extends this literature with a longitudinal assessment of the systematic effects of psychopathic personality traits on perceptions of offending.

Methods

Multivariate regression analyses using a sample of adjudicated delinquents from the Pathways to Desistance study (n = 987) were employed to estimate the association between psychopathic personality traits and perceptions of offending in adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Results

Results indicated that individuals who scored higher on psychopathic personality traits reported higher perceptions conducive to crime in both adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Conclusions

Identifying personality characteristics that affect perceptions of offending has important implications for deterrence and other criminological theories that rely on the perceptions of risk. The current study identified psychopathic personality traits as one source of individual differences in perceptions.

中文翻译：

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偏见：从青春期到成年期的精神病和风险和回报的系统性偏见

目的

对犯罪行为的风险和报酬的认知奖学金表明，个体差异对给定机会的犯罪决定有重大影响。当前的研究对精神病性人格特质对犯罪感的系统性影响进行了纵向评估，从而扩展了该文献。

方法

多变量回归分析使用来自“通往疾病之路”研究的裁决违法者样本（n  = 987）来估计精神病性人格特质与青春期和成年后的犯罪感之间的关联。

结果

结果表明，在精神病性人格特质上得分较高的人，其对青春期和成年后的犯罪有较高的认识。

结论

识别影响犯罪观念的人格特征对于威慑和其他基于风险观念的犯罪学理论具有重要意义。当前的研究确定了精神病性人格特质是个体观念差异的来源之一。