The present study examined the association of juvenile psychopathy features and treatment response in a sample of 102 youth, court adjudicated for sexual offenses and followed up more than 11 years in the community. The Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL: YV) was rated from comprehensive archival sources, along with a youth sexual offense risk assessment and treatment planning measure scored pre-and posttreatment. The PCL: YV converged with domains of sexual offense risk and change in conceptually meaningful ways, and significantly predicted nonsexual violent, general violent, and any recidivism; it did not significantly predict sexual recidivism. Higher levels of psychopathy-related personality features were significantly associated with noncompletion of youth sexual offense-specific treatment, while changes in risk were associated with decreased recidivism controlling for PCL: YV score and baseline risk at p < .10. The findings underscore the importance of intervention and support services for youth convicted of sexual offenses as well as the clinical and risk relevance of the juvenile psychopathy construct to decrease violent victimization to others.

本研究调查了 102 名青少年样本中青少年精神病特征和治疗反应的关联，这些青少年被法庭裁定为性犯罪，并在社区随访了 11 年以上。精神病检查表：青年版（PCL：YV）是从综合档案资源中进行评级的，同时对青少年性犯罪风险评估和治疗计划措施在治疗前后进行评分。PCL：YV 以概念上有意义的方式与性犯罪风险和变化领域融合，并显着预测非性暴力、一般暴力和任何累犯；它没有显着预测性累犯。较高水平的精神病相关人格特征与未完成针对青少年性犯罪的治疗显着相关，p  < .10。研究结果强调了为性犯罪被定罪的青少年提供干预和支持服务的重要性，以及青少年精神病结构的临床和风险相关性，以减少对他人的暴力侵害。