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22 Behav. Sci. & L. 1 (2004)

handle is hein.journals/bsclw22 and id is 1 raw text is: Behavioral Sciences and the Law Behav. Sci. Law 22: 1-4 (2004) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10. 1002/bsl.580 Introduction to the Special Issue on Juvenile Psychopathy, Volume 2 Juvenile Psychopathy: Informing the Debate A recent explosion of interest in the topic of juvenile psychopathy has been accompanied by sharp debate about whether the construct of psychopathy can validly and should be applied to youth. In the second consecutive special issue of Behavioral Sciences and the Law devoted to the topic of juvenile psychopathy, we present additional empirical articles to inform this debate. As noted in the first issue (Petrila & Skeem, 2003), three underlying controversies seem paramount: (i) the validity of extending adult models of psychopathy downward to youth, given patterns of personality development; (ii) the malleability or treatability of psycho- pathy-like features during youth; and (iii) the ethical and moral appropriateness of assessing psychopathy during youth. This volume contains six articles on juvenile psychopathy focused on three general topics, including the psychometrics of juvenile psychopathy measures; the relationship between psychopathy-like features and treatment progress; and a road-map for assessing the validity of psychopathy in youth. PSYCHOMETRICS OF JUVENILE PSYCHOPATHY MEASURES Several articles in this special issue assess the psychometric properties of measures of juvenile psychopathy. These articles emphasize the utility of these measures in assessing risk for violence, expressing the measures' chief practical appeal. By identifying useful, youth-focused measures that appear to reliably assess something that looks like psychopathy (Hart, Watt, & Vincent, 2002), these articles provide a foundation for determining whether psychopathy is a valid and developmentally appropriate construct for youth. In the first paper of this volume, Corrodo and his colleagues prospectively examine the utility of the Youth Version of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL:YV; Forth, Kosson, & Hare, 2003) in predicting violent recidivism for 197 male adolescent offenders. These authors used PCL:YV clusters of psychopathy-like features, as organized by traditional two-factor (Hare, 1991) and revised three factor (Cooke & Michie, 2001) psychopathy models, to predict recidivism. The authors found that the PCL:YV's utility in predicting violent recidivism chiefly was attributable to its summary of nonspecific antisocial features (i.e. traditional Copyright (0 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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