Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-21T02:02:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000458150-Texto+Completo-0.pdf: 604992 bytes, checksum: cb974f19bedcccec895bb59abda98a87 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / BACKGROUND: Psychopaths show impairments in emotional processing. Data about their ability to recognize emotional faces are not convergent. Prior studies revealed a lack of methodological convergence, in particular in relation to the exposure time of the stimuli, and on the sex bias of the sample with the majority of the studies focusing on male participants. This thesis aimed to investigate characteristics of psychopathy in female offenders, consisting of two empirical studies. The first study aimed to verify the recognition of facial expressions of emotion in psychopaths, being the first study to test the control of exposure time of 200 ms in the female sample. The second study investigated whether, in the same sample, psychopathy is isomorphic to Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) or if a discriminative pattern of scores on APD criteria is observed.METHOD: 109 female offenders from Porto Alegre city – Brazil were evaluated and, based on the PCL-R and SCID-II scores, three groups were formed: 1) female psychopathic inmates (PCL-R ≥ 30; n=33); 2) female antisocial (APD) non-psychopathic inmates (PCL-R < 20, n=43); and 3) female inmates without any personality disorder (control group) (PCL-R < 10, n=33). In the first study, participants completed a facial affect recognition task. In the second study, we used Latent Class Analysis based on the scores of the same measures to check whether psychopathy distinguishes between latent class female offenders with clinical diagnosis of APD.RESULTS: The first study revealed significant deficits in negative emotions (fear, sadness and disgust) in the psychopathic group, with the highest effect size being observed in processing of fear precisely when the stimuli were presented in 200 ms. Deficits were also observed in the APD group to the emotion of fear and disgust in shorter exposure times compared to the control group. In the second we identified three latent class with varying degrees of APD. Participants with a clinical diagnosis of APD fell into two latent class with significantly different mean scores on PCL-R psychopathy. Females with PCL-R total scores ≥ 30 fell almost exclusively within the Severe APD class; the Moderate APD class had almost no individuals with a PCL-R total score ≥ 30.CONCLUSION: The present work corroborates the data about the impairments in facial emotion recognition in psychopaths with unprecedented results in the literature for female samples. Data confirm that the more specific deficits shown by psychopaths are only observed in a reduced exposure time experimental stimulus. Moreover, we found novel empirical evidence that female offenders with clinical APD comprise a heterogeneous population, as higher levels of psychopathy only occurred in a subset of women above the clinical threshold for APD. / JUSTIFICATIVA: Psicopatas apresentam prejuízos relacionados ao processamento emocional. Dados sobre a habilidade de reconhecer faces emocionais não são convergentes. Estudos anteriores apresentam ausência de convergência metodológica, principalmente em relação ao tempo de exposição dos estímulos, e viés de sexo nas amostras, com a maioria dos estudos com foco em amostras masculinas. A presente dissertação teve como objetivo geral investigar características da psicopatia em mulheres presidiárias, sendo composta por dois estudos empíricos. O primeiro estudo objetivou verificar o reconhecimento de expressões faciais de emoções em psicopatas e o segundo estudo investigou se a psicopatia apresentada pela mesma amostra mostra-se isomorfa ao Transtorno da Personalidade Antissocial (TPA) ou se pode ser discriminante para diferentes padrões de pontuação para os critérios de TPA.MÉTODO: 109 presidiárias da cidade de Porto Alegre – Brasil foram avaliadas e, com base nos escores do PCL-R e SCID-II, foram formados três grupos: 1) 33 presidiárias com psicopatia (PCL-R ≥ 30); 2) 43 presidiárias com TPA (PCL-R < 20); e 3) 33 presidiárias sem nenhum transtorno da personalidade (grupo controle) (PCL-R < 10). No primeiro estudo as participantes responderam a uma tarefa de reconhecimento de expressões faciais de emoções. No segundo estudo, foi utilizada Análise de Classes Latentes, com base nos escores dos mesmos instrumentos, para verificar se a psicopatia distingue entre classes latentes as presidiárias com diagnóstico clínico de TPA.RESULTADOS: O primeiro estudo revelou déficits significativos no reconhecimento de emoções negativas (medo, tristeza e nojo) no grupo de psicopatas, com maior tamanho de efeito observado no processamento de medo, especificamente quando os estímulos foram apresentados em 200 ms. Também foram verificados déficits no grupo de TPA para a emoção de medo e de nojo no tempo mais breve de exposição em comparação ao grupo controle. No segundo estudo foram identificadas três classes latentes com diferentes graus de TPA. As participantes com diagnóstico clínico de TPA encaixaram-se em duas classes latentes com níveis significativamente diferentes de psicopatia. Mulheres com escore no PCL-R ≥ 30 fixaram-se quase exclusivamente dentro da classe de TPA grave, enquanto TPA moderado quase não conteve participantes com escore no PCL-R ≥ 30.CONCLUSÃO: A presente dissertação corrobora com os dados sobre prejuízos no reconhecimento de expressões faciais de emoções em psicopatas com resultados inéditos na literatura para a população feminina. Os dados confirmam a hipótese de que déficits mais específicos de processamento emocional nessa população são apresentados a um nível reduzido do tempo de exposição em condições experimentais. Além disso, foram verificadas evidências empíricas inéditas de que presidiárias com diagnóstico de TPA compreendem uma população heterogênea, como os níveis mais elevados de psicopatia sendo encontrados apenas em um subconjunto de presidiárias acima do limiar clínico para TPA.

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Anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) has become important socially, politically and culturally in the United Kingdom over the past fifteen years. Successive Governments have prioritised tackling ASB, with a plethora of legislation being introduced to tackle low-level nuisance behaviour. The Crime and Disorder Act (1998) shaped much of the policy in relation to ASB, with the flagship policy of anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) being introduced alongside other punitive measures. Alongside the dramatic increase in policy aimed at criminalising nuisance behaviour, a large literature has emerged spanning the social sciences, allied health sciences and criminology fields. Despite a large number of studies examining ASB, none has thus far explored ASB in rural locations. Given that Scotland is a predominantly rural country, it is important that a concept that has driven a large part of the criminal justice agenda is conceptualised in rural locations. Despite the Social Attitudes Survey highlighting the fact that rural areas statistically suffer from less ASB, there is a commonly held (mis)conception that this means that the impact of ASB on rural areas is also less (Ormston & Anderson, 2009). There is also an assumption in the existing literature that because there is statistically less ASB in rural areas, that ASB is less serious than that which exists in urban locations. In addition to a general lack of theorisation of ASB in rural Scotland, the challenges of responding to ASB over a large geographic area adds an interesting and important spatial dimension to the way that ASB is tackled. The core argument in this thesis, therefore, is that the distinctive characteristics of rural environments are central to understanding the nature, meaning and impact of ASB in this environment. This thesis therefore begins to redress the lack of work on ASB in rural locations by conceptualising and analysing the nature and impact of, and responses to, ASB in two case study locations in rural Scotland. Garland’s theorisation of the new culture of crime control which emerged in the late 90s provides a helpful urban focused framework to examine debates around rural ASB (Garland, 1996). Drawing on the existing urban-based ASB literature, the thesis begins by critically examining whether ASB that occurs in rural locations is distinct from that witnessed in urban environments. This thesis argues that, although there are distinct aspects to the ASB present in the rural Scottish case studies, the ASB experienced typically mirrors that experienced in urban locations rather than reflecting a distinct form of rural ASB. Nevertheless, the rural context fundamentally shapes the impact that ASB has on rural communities. The thesis draws on criminological and rural literatures to argue that a more sophisticated approach, where scale, harm and context are central components of the way that the impact of ASB on rural communities is understood, needs to be developed. The limited rural literature examining crime often neglects the everyday, lived reality of the impact of ASB and crime on remote populations, instead tending to focus on the structural challenges associated with tackling ASB. Exploring the impact of ASB at this micro-scale illuminates interesting differences between the urban conceptualisations of ASB and those found in the rural. Progressing up to the meso-scale is important for understanding ways that the police and other actors respond to ASB in rural locations. The challenges associated with the scale of rural locations is apparent through the response of the police and other agencies to ASB. This thesis argues that, in contrast to the way that ASB is conceptualised in rural locations, there is a distinct rural policing response to ASB with a distinct interaction between agencies, the community and the police which is enabled by the scale at which each operates. ASB in rural locations therefore tends to be tackled in a more holistic manner, in which the circumstances of the individuals involved tend to be considered before the appropriate interventions are made. Context and scale therefore play a key role in understanding the response of various actors to ASB. Combining these three conceptual inputs, this study engages with an area of ASB which has hitherto received scant attention. In contrast to much of the existing urban ASB literature, which treats the context as a passive entity, this thesis argues that ‘the rural’ is a key contextual part of understanding the nature and impact of, and responses to, ASB. Far from being a peripheral part of the ASB literature, the rural environment therefore should be considered of key importance for understanding ASB in other contexts.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Florianópolis, 2014. / Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-05T21:07:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 328525.pdf: 612497 bytes, checksum: f277aeb539eb3bd6ac35de980e2caf21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / A presente dissertação teve como objetivo a construção de uma escala para a avaliação do Trantorno de Personalidade Antissocial e a busca de evidências de validade pela estrutura interna e evidencias de validade de construto relacionado, de acordo com o modelo categórico-dimensional utilizado no Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais. Para tanto, foi elaborada uma estratégia metodológica para a construção de itens específicos ao quadro clínico, a realização de estudos de estrutura interna do instrumento, através da análise fatorial e das evidências de validade convergente, utilizando-se o instrumento Inventário Dimensional Clínico da Personalidade. Os resultados indicaram uma existência de 10 fatores gerais para a explicação do fenômeno, em que estes fatores estão conectados aos cinco fatores gerais, base para a pesquisa. A estrutura interna do instrumento mostrou-se adequada e a correlação com o IDCP apresentou resultados satisfatórios.<br> / Abstract : This dissertation aimed to construct a scale for Antissocial Disorder and the search for the internal structure and validity related, according to the model used in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. To that end, we developed a methodology for the construction of the specific clinical items, conducting studies of internal structure of the instrument through factor analysis and evidence of convergent validity, using the instrument Inventário Dimensional Clínico da Personalidade. The results indicated the existence of 10 general factors for the explanation of the phenomenon, in which these factors are connected to the five general factors, basis for the research. The internal structure of the instrument was adequate and the correlation with the IDCP showed satisfactory results.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-14T13:22:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 458150.pdf: 604992 bytes, checksum: cb974f19bedcccec895bb59abda98a87 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-27 / BACKGROUND: Psychopaths show impairments in emotional processing. Data about their ability to recognize emotional faces are not convergent. Prior studies revealed a lack of methodological convergence, in particular in relation to the exposure time of the stimuli, and on the sex bias of the sample with the majority of the studies focusing on male participants. This thesis aimed to investigate characteristics of psychopathy in female offenders, consisting of two empirical studies. The first study aimed to verify the recognition of facial expressions of emotion in psychopaths, being the first study to test the control of exposure time of 200 ms in the female sample. The second study investigated whether, in the same sample, psychopathy is isomorphic to Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) or if a discriminative pattern of scores on APD criteria is observed. METHOD: 109 female offenders from Porto Alegre city Brazil were evaluated and, based on the PCL-R and SCID-II scores, three groups were formed: 1) female psychopathic inmates (PCL-R &#8805; 30; n=33); 2) female antisocial (APD) non-psychopathic inmates (PCL-R < 20, n=43); and 3) female inmates without any personality disorder (control group) (PCL-R < 10, n=33). In the first study, participants completed a facial affect recognition task. In the second study, we used Latent Class Analysis based on the scores of the same measures to check whether psychopathy distinguishes between latent class female offenders with clinical diagnosis of APD. RESULTS: The first study revealed significant deficits in negative emotions (fear, sadness and disgust) in the psychopathic group, with the highest effect size being observed in processing of fear precisely when the stimuli were presented in 200 ms. Deficits were also observed in the APD group to the emotion of fear and disgust in shorter exposure times compared to the control group. In the second we identified three latent class with varying degrees of APD. Participants with a clinical diagnosis of APD fell into two latent class with significantly different mean scores on PCL-R psychopathy. Females with PCL-R total scores &#8805; 30 fell almost exclusively within the Severe APD class; the Moderate APD class had almost no individuals with a PCL-R total score &#8805; 30. CONCLUSION: The present work corroborates the data about the impairments in facial emotion recognition in psychopaths with unprecedented results in the literature for female samples. Data confirm that the more specific deficits shown by psychopaths are only observed in a reduced exposure time experimental stimulus. Moreover, we found novel empirical evidence that female offenders with clinical APD comprise a heterogeneous population, as higher levels of psychopathy only occurred in a subset of women above the clinical threshold for APD. / JUSTIFICATIVA: Psicopatas apresentam preju?zos relacionados ao processamento emocional. Dados sobre a habilidade de reconhecer faces emocionais n?o s?o convergentes. Estudos anteriores apresentam aus?ncia de converg?ncia metodol?gica, principalmente em rela??o ao tempo de exposi??o dos est?mulos, e vi?s de sexo nas amostras, com a maioria dos estudos com foco em amostras masculinas. A presente disserta??o teve como objetivo geral investigar caracter?sticas da psicopatia em mulheres presidi?rias, sendo composta por dois estudos emp?ricos. O primeiro estudo objetivou verificar o reconhecimento de express?es faciais de emo??es em psicopatas e o segundo estudo investigou se a psicopatia apresentada pela mesma amostra mostra-se isomorfa ao Transtorno da Personalidade Antissocial (TPA) ou se pode ser discriminante para diferentes padr?es de pontua??o para os crit?rios de TPA. M?TODO: 109 presidi?rias da cidade de Porto Alegre Brasil foram avaliadas e, com base nos escores do PCL-R e SCID-II, foram formados tr?s grupos: 1) 33 presidi?rias com psicopatia (PCL-R &#8805; 30); 2) 43 presidi?rias com TPA (PCL-R < 20); e 3) 33 presidi?rias sem nenhum transtorno da personalidade (grupo controle) (PCL-R < 10). No primeiro estudo as participantes responderam a uma tarefa de reconhecimento de express?es faciais de emo??es. No segundo estudo, foi utilizada An?lise de Classes Latentes, com base nos escores dos mesmos instrumentos, para verificar se a psicopatia distingue entre classes latentes as presidi?rias com diagn?stico cl?nico de TPA. RESULTADOS: O primeiro estudo revelou d?ficits significativos no reconhecimento de emo??es negativas (medo, tristeza e nojo) no grupo de psicopatas, com maior tamanho de efeito observado no processamento de medo, especificamente quando os est?mulos foram apresentados em 200 ms. Tamb?m foram verificados d?ficits no grupo de TPA para a emo??o de medo e de nojo no tempo mais breve de exposi??o em compara??o ao grupo controle. No segundo estudo foram identificadas tr?s classes latentes com diferentes graus de TPA. As participantes com diagn?stico cl?nico de TPA encaixaram-se em duas classes latentes com n?veis significativamente diferentes de psicopatia. Mulheres com escore no PCL-R &#8805; 30 fixaram-se quase exclusivamente dentro da classe de TPA grave, enquanto TPA moderado quase n?o conteve participantes com escore no PCL-R &#8805; 30. CONCLUS?O: A presente disserta??o corrobora com os dados sobre preju?zos no reconhecimento de express?es faciais de emo??es em psicopatas com resultados in?ditos na literatura para a popula??o feminina. Os dados confirmam a hip?tese de que d?ficits mais espec?ficos de processamento emocional nessa popula??o s?o apresentados a um n?vel reduzido do tempo de exposi??o em condi??es experimentais. Al?m disso, foram verificadas evid?ncias emp?ricas in?ditas de que presidi?rias com diagn?stico de TPA compreendem uma popula??o heterog?nea, como os n?veis mais elevados de psicopatia sendo encontrados apenas em um subconjunto de presidi?rias acima do limiar cl?nico para TPA.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) provides intensive short-term interventions for young people with antisocial behaviour and the systems that surround them. A wealth of research over the past 30 years has demonstrated the efficacy of MST. Its success has led to it being transported to many countries and this prompted investigations into the need for cultural adaptation. Despite these investigations highlighting the importance of tailoring MST to new countries, when MST was transported to England in 2001, it did not undergo a formal process of cultural tailoring. This study employed a qualitative approach using a Grounded Theory methodology to explore the assumption that all transported programmes require a level of adaptation and aimed to identify the processes and rationale behind informal ‘cultural tailoring' undertaken by therapists. It aimed to explore areas in MST that might benefit from ‘cultural tailoring' to improve the effectiveness of its implementation in England. Eight MST therapists from across three MST teams in England participated in semi-structured interviews. Analysis of the data generated a theoretical model of adherence: the Post Implementation Model of Adherence (PIMA). The PIMA model seeks to explain how therapists in England experience and manage adhering to MST. It proposes that MST therapists strive to adhere to all aspects of the MST model whilst ensuring that it is acceptable and workable for the families and systems they work with. The PIMA model comprised four theoretical codes: Facilitators to therapists staying faithful to the MST model; barriers to therapists implementing MST, overcoming barriers to implementing MST; and the therapist holding the tension. The findings highlight important cultural adjustments to improve MST's ‘fit' in England. Findings also extend Schoenwald's (2008) recommendations for successful transportation of MST, by drawing attention to how a lack of cultural tailoring can be overcome or experienced as stressful by therapists.

O presente estudo versa sobre os discursos policial, jurídico, psiquiátrico e jornalístico produzidos acerca de um jovem, autor de um quíntuplo homicídio em família (patri-matri-fratricídio). O dossier sobre o caso, e ainda mais três explicações para a conduta violenta, oriundas do campo psi, foram analisados a partir da arqueologia, genealogia e ética foucaultianas visando esclarecer os motivos e os modos de construção destes discursos. O estudo permitiu constatar que as diferentes instâncias sociais solidarizaram-se para forjar uma representação do homicida compatível com o consagrado modelo da psicopatia - a ausência de remorsos, a incapacidade para a empatia, a frieza afetiva e a insensibilidade moral; também, que produções do campo psi prestam-se a dar referendo científico às conclusões sociais que retratam os homicidas como seres malignos, portadores de aberrações biológicas que os incapacitam a desenvolver adequadamente a afetividade e a moralidade, condenando-os aos atos criminosos violentos. Estas constatações, discutidas pelo prisma das contradições da sociedade contemporânea, deixam vislumbrar parte daquilo que se obnubila por estes discursos: remetendo ao plano biológico as determinações da conduta irracional e violenta, poupa-se de crítica o ordenamento sistemático das relações sócio-econômicas. Em conclusão, apresenta-se como imperativo derivar para a ciência psi a injunção de conhecer e denunciar as interveniências dos planos individual e coletivo em toda e qualquer conduta humana - o mais irracional e violento dos crimes cometido por um homem, guarda obrigatoriamente os traços da irracionalidade e violência do sistema social que o envolve; aperceber-se deles é condição de transformá-los. / This present study considers the police, legal, psychiatric and journalistic speeches about a young man who is the author of a quintuplet family homicide (patricide-matricide-fraticide). The dossier about the case, and three explanations else for the violent behaviour from the psy area, were analysed from the archaeological, genealogical and ethical foucaultian considering to clear up the cause and way these speeches were constructed.The study has allowed to show up the different social resort to join forces to forging a representation of the murderer with the stablished model of psychopath - no remorses, the incapacity for empathy, coolness affection and moral insensibility; it is also to show that productions of the psy area are suitable for giving scientific endorsement to the social agreement that show the murderer as evil beings who are owners a such of biological aberrations that make them incapable of developing the affecting and morality and to sentence them to criminal violent actions. All these observations were talked about by the point of view of the contemporany society contradictions and they let to glimpse part of that are hided by those speeches: the systematic order of social economical relations indulgences itself of criticism when it sends the determinations of irrational and violent behaviour to the biological area. As conclusion, it shows the necessity to deduce to the psy science the obligation to knowing and denouncing the interference between individual and collective plans in all human behaviour - the most of irrational and violent crimes commited by a man hides traces of irrationality and violence of social system that involves it. The capacity of see the traces is the conditions to be able to change them.

O presente estudo versa sobre os discursos policial, jurídico, psiquiátrico e jornalístico produzidos acerca de um jovem, autor de um quíntuplo homicídio em família (patri-matri-fratricídio). O dossier sobre o caso, e ainda mais três explicações para a conduta violenta, oriundas do campo psi, foram analisados a partir da arqueologia, genealogia e ética foucaultianas visando esclarecer os motivos e os modos de construção destes discursos. O estudo permitiu constatar que as diferentes instâncias sociais solidarizaram-se para forjar uma representação do homicida compatível com o consagrado modelo da psicopatia - a ausência de remorsos, a incapacidade para a empatia, a frieza afetiva e a insensibilidade moral; também, que produções do campo psi prestam-se a dar referendo científico às conclusões sociais que retratam os homicidas como seres malignos, portadores de aberrações biológicas que os incapacitam a desenvolver adequadamente a afetividade e a moralidade, condenando-os aos atos criminosos violentos. Estas constatações, discutidas pelo prisma das contradições da sociedade contemporânea, deixam vislumbrar parte daquilo que se obnubila por estes discursos: remetendo ao plano biológico as determinações da conduta irracional e violenta, poupa-se de crítica o ordenamento sistemático das relações sócio-econômicas. Em conclusão, apresenta-se como imperativo derivar para a ciência psi a injunção de conhecer e denunciar as interveniências dos planos individual e coletivo em toda e qualquer conduta humana - o mais irracional e violento dos crimes cometido por um homem, guarda obrigatoriamente os traços da irracionalidade e violência do sistema social que o envolve; aperceber-se deles é condição de transformá-los. / This present study considers the police, legal, psychiatric and journalistic speeches about a young man who is the author of a quintuplet family homicide (patricide-matricide-fraticide). The dossier about the case, and three explanations else for the violent behaviour from the psy area, were analysed from the archaeological, genealogical and ethical foucaultian considering to clear up the cause and way these speeches were constructed.The study has allowed to show up the different social resort to join forces to forging a representation of the murderer with the stablished model of psychopath - no remorses, the incapacity for empathy, coolness affection and moral insensibility; it is also to show that productions of the psy area are suitable for giving scientific endorsement to the social agreement that show the murderer as evil beings who are owners a such of biological aberrations that make them incapable of developing the affecting and morality and to sentence them to criminal violent actions. All these observations were talked about by the point of view of the contemporany society contradictions and they let to glimpse part of that are hided by those speeches: the systematic order of social economical relations indulgences itself of criticism when it sends the determinations of irrational and violent behaviour to the biological area. As conclusion, it shows the necessity to deduce to the psy science the obligation to knowing and denouncing the interference between individual and collective plans in all human behaviour - the most of irrational and violent crimes commited by a man hides traces of irrationality and violence of social system that involves it. The capacity of see the traces is the conditions to be able to change them.

Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-07T19:09:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000410376-Texto+Completo-0.pdf: 780957 bytes, checksum: 69b7659befbac85f98640bbd88cc0063 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / The high incidence of violence in Brazil, and worldwide, is the main reason why this work was performed. The observation of a violent cycle articulated by law offenders brought a lot of instigative questions to the researcher. There is a growing theoretical and applied interest in the construct of psychopathy. This interest is partly explained by the strong association between psychopathy and serious or repeated crimes in the adult population. The violent behavior has a poor prognosis and the lack of evidences of an effective intervention among the criminal career of adult psychopaths shows the importance of an early identification of those traits. Researches with youths could help planning early interventions which could be capable of changing the serious and persistent way of the antisocial behavior linked to psychopathy. By proposing the diagnostic assessment of adolescent offenders, using a worldwide recognized method, we intend to review some historical and recent concepts of psychopathy. The utilization of a reliable and valid instrument for the Brazilian context represents an advance in the early detection and treatment of such adolescents. We, therefore, present a review of this subject as well as a study of the validity process of the Psychopathy Checklist – Youth Version (PCL: YV) for Portuguese (Brazil), specifically the reliability and internal consistence. / A violência crescente no Brasil, e no mundo, é o principal incentivador deste trabalho. A observação do ciclo de violência entre agressores suscitou indagações no pesquisador. Existe um crescente interesse teórico e aplicado no constructo de psicopatia. Este interesse em parte é devido às pesquisas com adultos que têm demonstrado uma forte relação entre psicopatia e crimes repetitivos e graves. O comportamento violento representa pobre prognóstico de tratamento e a falta de evidências de intervenções eficazes na carreira criminosa de psicopatas adultos evidencia a importância da identificação precoce no desenvolvimento de tais traços. Pesquisas com jovens podem conduzir para o desenvolvimento de estratégias de intervenções precoces concebidas para modificar a trajetória grave e persistente do comportamento anti-social que é associado com a psicopatia.Ao propor a avaliação diagnóstica de adolescentes em situação de conflito com a lei através de um instrumento internacionalmente reconhecido e utilizado, propomos a revisão de conceitos relacionados à visão histórica e atual do constructo “psicopatia”. A utilização de um instrumento confiável e validado para o contexto nacional representa um avanço na detecção precoce e intervenção condizente com a realidade do adolescente. Além de uma ampla revisão bibliográfica, será apresentada uma etapa de adaptação para o Português (Brasil) do Inventário de Psicopatia de Hare: Versão Jovens (PCL: YV), mais especificamente a etapa de Fidedignidade e Consistência Interna.