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TELLEGEN’S MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE IN VIOLENT AND NONVIOLENT WOMEN CRIMINALS
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@MISC{Kenna_tellegen’smultidimensional,
author = {Cheryl E. Kenna and Alvin G. Burstein},
title = {TELLEGEN’S MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE IN VIOLENT AND NONVIOLENT WOMEN CRIMINALS},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Although crime rates have been decreasing for a number of years, crime continues to be an important problem both economically and socially. An emerging factor is the need to house an increasing number of female offenders. Although the amount of crime commit-ted by women has increased in the last forty years, little research has been conducted with this population. The Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a self-report personality inventory developed by Auke Tellegen, is a relatively new means of psycho-logically examining populations of interest. The MPQ measures eleven personality traits and three higher order factors. Thirty-two violent and 23 nonviolent women inmates at the Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women were administered the MPQ. A dis-criminant function analysis using the primary trait measures accurately classified 81.8% of the women. Thus the MPQ would seem a promising tool to use in the further study of this and possibly other criminal groups. Crime is an important problem in the United States, in both economic and social terms. The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported in 2002 that the U.S. spent $147 billion on criminal justice operations alone in 1999. Spending on police activities, legal and judicial services, and corrections in-creased by approximately 8 % per year from 1982 to 1999 (Gifford, 2002). During this time period, expenditures for police activities rose by 244 % while the cost of judicial services rose by 314%. Al-though police activities continue to be the most expensive compo-nent of criminal justice activities, the cost of corrections underwent Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Alvin Burstein,
Keyphrases
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