Abstract
This chapter reviews the empirical research relevant to understanding psychopathy during adolescence, with a focus on research that has measured psychopathy using the Psychopathy Checklist: youth version. It discusses a description of the instruments that have been developed to assess psychopathic traits in adolescents. The chapter provides a research on the stability of psychopathic traits across adolescence is reviewed. It presents the overlap with other disruptive disorders. The chapter explores the association between psychopathy and criminal conduct in adolescence. It suggests that for future research that may elucidate the measurement and implications of assessing psychopathic traits in adolescents. Stability of Psychopathic Characteristics Ethically, psychometrically, and theoretically, some degree of stability and continuity across adolescence and into adulthood is necessary for the downward extension of psychopathic traits to adolescence. The trajectory, as the name suggests, describes a class of youth that initially scored moderately high on psychopathic traits and remained stable across the assessment period.
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