Racial/ethnic and gender disparities in anger management therapy as a probation condition.

Objective: This study examined whether race/ethnicity and gender predicted sentencing to anger management therapy as a probation condition.

Hypotheses: We predicted judges would be more likely to assign African Americans and Hispanics, and males to anger management than Caucasians and women, respectively. We hypothesized demographic variables would predict assignment to anger management beyond legal and nondefendant extralegal variables.

Factor structure and clinical utility of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory in an inpatient sample.

Previous research on the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI; Andershed et al., 2002) has identified a three-factor structure: Interpersonal, Affective, and Behavioral. The present study sought to test this three-factor structure and broader psychometric properties of the YPI in a sample of 328 adolescents undergoing inpatient psychiatric care.