Risk factors in violent and nonviolent offenders

Factors leading to risk for violence were evaluated in an offender populati on of 36 male offenders including 18 Violent, e.g., assault, threatening an d 17 nonviolent (break and enter, theft), and 17 nonoffenders. Their scores on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised, Violence Risk Scale-Experimental Ver sion 1, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-168, and the Porteus Ma ze tests showed scores for the inmates with violent offenses were elevated on Psychopathic Deviate, Paranoia, Schizophrenia scales of the Minnesota Mu ltiphasic Personality Inventory, violence risk of the Violence Risk Scale, showed psychopathic orientation on the Psychopathy Checklist Revised, and h ad a lower test age quotient score on the Porteus Maze test.