According to the Sentencing Project, between 1980 and 2017, the number of incarcerated women increased by more than 750%, rising from a total of 26,378 in 1980 to 225,060 in 2017 and the number continues to rise. Dealing with incarcerated women and specifically psychopathic women can be challenging. Understanding Female Offenders: Psychopathy, Criminal Behavior, Assessment, and Treatment provides readers with a better conceptualization of the psychopathic/non-psychopathic female. This includes better ways of interviewing, assessing, and treating these women, and clinical caveats with case examples to assist with clinical applications. This is the only comprehensive resource that provides specific knowledge about female offenders, particularly on female psychopathy and assessment.

Understanding Female Offenders: Psychopathy, Criminal Behavior, Assessment, and Treatment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gacono, Carl B.

Smith, Jason M.

Cunliffe, Ted B.

Mental Health

Academic Press

This book provides a definitive empirical study of antisocial character pathology and its assessment through the use of the Rorschach. Drawing upon a decade of research with nearly 400 individuals in various hospitals and prisons, the authors paint an extraordinary intrapsychic picture of the personality structure and psychodynamics of these troublesome patients. Serving as both an educational tool and a reference text, this book presents: * Rorschach data on several different antisocial groups -- conduct disordered children and adolescents, antisocial personality disordered adult males with and without schizophrenia, antisocial adult females, and male and female sexual homicide perpetrators; * nomothetic (group) and idiographic (case study) data; * data which have been analyzed and theoretically interpreted using both structural methods and psychoanalytic approaches which represent the cutting edge of Rorschach theory and practice; and * a developmental approach in analyzing Rorschach data gathered from antisocial children, adolescents, and adults -- providing striking similarities. This is the first Rorschach database of this type that has ever been published. As such, it serves as a valuable reference text for Rorschach users -- providing a definitive empirical base, theoretical integration, and a focus on individuals who create severe problems for society.

The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities (Personality and Clinical Psychology)

Meloy, J. Reid

Routledge

This semi-structured interview format offers a time-efficient method for gathering and recording information and scoring the PCL-R and PCL:SV. <ul>
<li>Similar to semi-structured interview schedules used by clinicians--facilitates a rapid accumulation of data. Scoring is complete by the end of the interview.</li> <li>Directly links data to individual items, allowing forensic experts to defend their scoring.</li> <li>Uses a format that is familiar to clinicians. Items are scored consecutively, and arranged in an order that allows rapid scoring (related items grouped).</li> <li>Appropriate for clinical, forensic, and research settings.</li> <li>Allows for an easy check of inter-rater reliability of each protocol.</li> <li>Tailored to an individual evaluation.</li> <li>Eliminates the need to purchase multiple forms (use for both PCL-R &amp; PCL:SV).</li> <li>Reduces administration time by a third to a half.</li>
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Developed through use in over 400 PCL-R and PCL:SV evaluations in a major forensic psychiatric hospital, and initially published in Gacono (Ed.), A Clinical and Forensic Interview Schedule for the Hare Psychopathology Checklist (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000), the CFIS has been utilized in over a dozen clinical and forensic settings, with good inter-rater agreement and sound validity.

A Clinical and Forensic Interview Schedule for the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Revised and Screening Version

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