cteristics of adult sexual offenders have identified low self-esteem, anger, and depression as characteristics of this population. In order to determine whether these same characteristics are part of the personality profiles of adolescent sex offenders, Etherington administered the Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children to twenty juvenile sex offenders, violent non-sex offenders and non offenders, for a total sample size of 60 adolescents.
In the study, it was hypothesized that sex offenders would differ on measures of personality, psychopathy, and diagnoses. Support was found for differences between sex offenders, violent non-sex offend
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