PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT OFFENDERS WITH THE MCMI

The MCMI was administered to 603 recently convicted violent offenders, grouped according to nature of the offense into child molesters (n = 201), rapists (n = 195), and non-sexually aggressive felons (n = 205). Both groups of sexual offenders were more passive-aggressive, but chi ld molesters were more dependent, anxious, and depressed than the othe r two groups, whose personality style was more narcissistic and indepe ndent with little psychic distress. Results confirm earlier findings b ased on MMPI test results, which show that the personality styles of r apists are more similar to those of non-sexually aggressive felons tha n to those of child molesters. Test variance can no longer be the basi s for these replicated findings.