ABSTRACT

The role of psychopathy in Asian samples has not been well reported. This study tests the ability of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) to predict sexual recidivists compared to nonsexual recidivists. A total of 451 Korean male high-risk offenders were assessed by the PCL-R in 2005, and 445 offenders recidivated by 2016. Factor 1 (interpersonal-affective) and facet 2 (affective) showed the highest effect size of 0.53 in a comparison between sexual recidivists (n = 201) and nonsexual recidivists (n = 244). We further tested four facets for different forms of recidivism using one-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Sexual recidivists scored significantly higher in facet 2 than misdemeanors (n = 59, d = 0.79), robbers (n = 31, d = 0.58), burglars (n = 33, d = 0.57), and murderers (n = 65, d = 0.54). The highest effect sizes were found in facet 2 (d = 0.79) to separate sex offenders from misdemeanors, followed by Factor 1 (d = 0.75) and facet 1 (d = 0.73) to separate sex offenders from burglars. Finally, hierarchical binary logistic regression revealed that only facet 2 (27.3%) predicted sexual recidivism, indicating the importance of personality traits over behavioral traits in predicting sexual violence.

摘要

精神病在亚洲样本中的作用尚未得到充分报道。这项研究测试了精神病检查表修订版（PCL-R）预测性累犯与非性累犯的能力。2005 年，PCL-R 总共对 451 名韩国男性高危犯罪者进行了评估，到 2016 年，有 445 名犯罪者再次犯罪。比较中，因子 1（人际情感）和方面 2（情感）显示最高效应量为 0.53性累犯 (n = 201) 和非性累犯 (n = 244) 之间。我们使用单向多元方差分析 (MANOVA) 进一步测试了不同形式累犯的四个方面。性惯犯在第 2 方面的得分显着高于轻罪 (n = 59, d = 0.79)、强盗 (n = 31, d = 0.58)、窃贼 (n = 33,d = 0.57）和杀人犯（n = 65，d = 0.54）。最大的效应大小出现在区分性犯罪者和轻罪的第 2 方面（d = 0.79），其次是区分性犯罪者和窃贼的第 1 方面（ d = 0.75）和第 1 方面（d = 0.73）。最后，分层二元逻辑回归显示，只有第 2 方面（27.3%）预测性累犯，这表明在预测性暴力方面人格特征比行为特征更重要。