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Psychopathy, Treatment Behavior, and Recidivism

An Extended Follow-Up of Seto and Barbaree

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and University of Toronto, Howard_Barbaree{at}camh.net

Seto and Barbaree reported the unexpected finding that adult male sex offenders who scored higher on psychopathy and exhibited better behavior in treatment were almost four times more likely to commit a new serious offence than other offenders once released. The present study reexamined this sample after a longer follow-up time using more complete recidivism data from a national police database. Although psychopathy continued to be a significant predictor of general and serious recidivism, treatment behavior was no longer related to either general or serious recidivism, and there was no statistically significant interaction between psychopathy and treatment behavior. Additional analyses ruled out the possibility that the differences between studies could be accounted for by the different average length of follow-up. A direct comparison of the two sources of recidivism data showed that differences in recidivism between subgroups were reduced by using the more complete recidivism data.

Key Words: sex offenders • recidivism • psychopathy • treatment behavior

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 20, No. 9, 1115-1131 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0886260505278262


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