Creating profiles of juvenile offenders using functions of aggression and callous-unemotional traits: relations to crime type

A rich line of criminological theories and research has suggested that individual characteristics may be important to predicting criminal activity. However, there is limited research examining how individual characteristics may be related to the type of crime committed (e.g. violent, sex, drug). To...

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Published in:Psychiatry, psychology, and law psychology, and law, 2023-10, Vol.30 (5), p.713-736
Main Authors: Pederson, Casey A., Griffith, Rebecca L., Nowalis, Sarah, Fite, Paula J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aggression
Aggressiveness
callous unemotional traits
Crime
Criminal law
Criminals
Criminology
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile offenders
Medical care
Offending
offending behavior
proactive aggression
Psychology
reactive aggression
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Summary:A rich line of criminological theories and research has suggested that individual characteristics may be important to predicting criminal activity. However, there is limited research examining how individual characteristics may be related to the type of crime committed (e.g. violent, sex, drug). To provide guidance to these questions, the current set of two studies used latent profile analysis to identify groups of offenders based on individual factors (i.e. proactive and reactive aggression, and callous-unemotional traits), chosen for their interrelatedness and their established associations with crime, and examined whether these groups relate to type, severity or the number of crimes committed across two studies. In both studies, four groups of offenders were identified, but these groups were not associated with offending behaviors or patterns. Findings and implications are discussed.
ISSN:1321-8719
1934-1687
DOI:10.1080/13218719.2022.2116609