Were Wolfgang's chronic offenders psychopaths? On the convergent validity between psychopathy and career criminality

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Psychopathy is the Unified Theory of Crime (2009, background): “Using a statewide population of 723 confined delinquents, Vaughn and DeLisi (2008) found strong convergent validity between psychopathy and a career criminality index as offenders who presented with psychopathic characteristics were several hundred percent more likely than offenders without psycho”
An Investigation of Primary and Secondary Psychopathy in a Statewide Sample of Incarcerated Youth (2009, unknown): “…features evinced by juveniles display an array of external correlates that are generally consistent with theory and with the adult literature on psychopathy (Edens & Campbell, 2007; Edens, Campbell, & Weir, 2007; Vaughn & DeLisi, 2008; see, more generally, Frick, 2007; Petrila & Skeem, 2003).”
Violence and Externalizing Behavior Among Youth in the United States (2014, background): “…damage, mental health distress, and social and economic burden (DeLisi, 2005; Moffitt, 1993, 2003; Ribeiro da Silva, Rijo, & Salekin, 2012; Salekin & Lynam, 2010; Vaughn & DeLisi, 2008) and has been identified as arguably the most pressing and important problem in child mental health (Eme, 2010).”