title: Classification of severe male juvenile offenders using the MACI clinical and personality scales.
abstract: Classifications for severe juvenile offenders and ones that include mental health needs are lacking. Thus, in this study, adolescent male offenders (N = 652) committed to a residential facility were clustered on personality and clinical scales of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (Millon, 1993) into 5 groups (including 4 found in other typologies). As expected, the impulsive/reactive and psychopathy groups had more severe criminal histories and the impulsive/reactive and anxious/inhibited groups had increased suicidal behaviors and poor psychosocial functioning. The impulsive/reactive group showed expected verbal deficits. The unremarkable group lacked discernable personality/clinical problems and was unremarkable on dependent variables. A conforming group emerged that may be unique to severe juvenile offender populations. Future studies should examine institutional adjustment and outcomes among the identified groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1270, USA. taylor@psy.fsu.edu
authors.forename: Jeanette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Therese Skubic
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Kemper
authors.forename: Bryan R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Loney
authors.forename: Janet A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kistner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires