This paper examines empathy among a purposive sample (N= 633) of college and
university students in the northeastern United States. Mehrabian's Balanced Emotional …

Empathy and Adolescent Male Sex-Offenders Page 1 Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1994, 79,
1598. O Perceptual and Motor Skills 1994 EMPATHY AND ADOLESCENT MALE SEX-OFFENDERS …

This article examines the analysis of the psychometric properties, including the validity and
reliability, of the Empathy Index (EI), a new instrument designed to measure empathy deficits …

Previous studies associated psychopathy in adults with deficits in empathy but these studies
did not directly compare cognitive and emotional facets of empathy. The present study …

Two groups of male adolescents, incarcerated young offenders (N= 64, mean age= 16.3
years) and a comparison group of community youth (N= 60; mean age= 16.6 years), were …

The purpose of this study was to examine differences in empathy between offender and
nonoffender youth. Seventy-six male and 33 female juvenile offenders between the ages of …

A deficit in empathy is generally regarded as a factor that contributes to the occurrence of
sexual offenses and sexual boundary violations. As a result, many experts recommend …

Empathy development is believed to be an important element in adolescent sex offender
treatment. Adolescence is a time of considerable self-absorption among adolescent boys …

One hundred nineteen male and 67 female violent and nonviolent offenders incarcerated in
the New York City jail system completed questionnaires measuring affective and cognitive …

This longitudinal study examined the role of empathy in predicting recidivism among young
adult offenders. During their prison terms, 748 male offenders between the ages of 15 and …