TY - JOUR AU - Endrass, Jérôme AU - Rossegger, Astrid AU - Urbaniok, Frank AU - Laubacher, Arja AU - Vetter, Stefan PY - 2008 DA - 2008/09/08 TI - Predicting violent infractions in a Swiss state penitentiary: A replication study of the PCL-R in a population of sex and violent offenders JO - BMC Psychiatry SP - 74 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - Research conducted with forensic psychiatric patients found moderate correlations between violence in institutions and psychopathy. It is unclear though, whether the PCL-R is an accurate instrument for predicting aggressive behavior in prisons. Results seem to indicate that the instrument is better suited for predicting verbal rather than physical aggression of prison inmates. SN - 1471-244X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-8-74 DO - 10.1186/1471-244X-8-74 ID - Endrass2008 ER -