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Psychopathy and substance use in adolescent male offenders
D L Mailloux1, A E Forth, D G Kroner
1Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. dmaillou@ccs.carleton.ca
Psychological Reports
|November 14, 1997
Abstract:
Previous research with incarcerated adult male offenders yielded correlations of .28 to .40 between measures of substance abuse and psychopathic characteristics. This comorbidity was replicated in 40 incarcerated adolescent male offenders. Drug and alcohol use was significantly correlated with the behavioral characteristics of psychopathy (r = .48 and .41, respectively).