The construct of psychopathy has been comparatively understudied in women, and to date there has been no attempt to systematically review the literature related to psychopathy in women. This review assimilates the existing evidence in relation to the

Purpose As there are no validated risk assessment tools to predict recidivism for females who have sexually offended, the current study examines the utility of PCL-R to predict recidivism for this population. Methods Psychopathy scores were collected

Since the introduction of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in 1991 (PCL-R), numerous studies have examined the reliability and validity of this assessment instrument in samples of institutionalized and noninstitu-tionalized females. We reviewed these