Psychopathic traits and offender characteristics – a nationwide consecutive sample of homicidal male adolescents

摘要

BackgroundThe aim of the study was to evaluate psychopathy-like personality traits in a nationwide consecutive sample of adolescent male homicide offenders and to compare the findings with those of a randomly sampled adult male homicide offender group. A further aim was to investigate associations between psychopathic traits and offender and offence characteristics in adolescent homicides.