Empathy and offending: a systematic review and meta-analysis

By D. Jolliffe, David P. Farrington. 2004

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Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis (2011, background): “A recent meta-analysis found that criminal offenders scored lower on PT than nonoffenders (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004).”
Empathy and Emotional Responsiveness in Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Adolescents. (2007, background): “The size of the effect is consistent with the meta-analysis of Jolliffe and Farrington (2004).”
The QCAE: A Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (2009, background): “The main problem in constructing a widely accepted definition of empathy arises from the debate about whether empathy involves recognizing emotion or experiencing it, or both ( Bennett, 1995 ; Chlopan, McCain, Carbonell, & Hagen, 1985 ; Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004 ).”
Narcissism and Empathy in Young Offenders and Non–Offenders (2014, background): “Similarly, offending has been linked variously both to cognitive empathy (Jolliffe and Farrington, 2004) and affective empathy (Jolliffe and Farrington, 2007).”
Cyberbullying among adolescent bystanders: role of the communication medium, form of violence, and empathy (2013, background): “The cognitive and affective components of empathy have been shown to reduce aggressive behaviour (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004) and the propensity for committing offences and engaging in peer violence (Davis, 1994).”
Drawing conclusions about causes from systematic reviews of risk factors: The Cambridge Quality Checklists (2009, background): “Jolliffe and Farrington (2004) conducted a systematic review of questionnaire-based studies of empathy and offending and found that low cognitive empathy was strongly related to offending, but low affective empathy was only weakly related to offending.”
Moral Disengagement, Normative Beliefs of Peer Group, and Attitudes Regarding Roles in Bullying (2009, background): “More recently, Jolliffe and Farrington (2004 ) found low empathy to be related to offending, although this relation was stronger for cognitive empathy than for affective empathy.”
A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions † (2006, neutral): “Similar to the notion of victim empathy before it (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004), theoretical assumptions about irresponsibility and excuse making have been strongly challenged by recent meta-analytic studies of the predictors of reoffending.”
Measuring Group Climate in Prison (2011, neutral): “…social cognition and social learning (Gazzola, Aziz Zadeh, & Keysers, 2006; Iacoboni & Dapretto, 2006; Vignemont & Singer, 2006), less impulsivity and fear (Wykes et al., 2002), and improved ability to show feelings and empathy (Corrigan 2004, Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004; Wicker et al., 2003).”
Relación entre el clima familiar y el clima escolar: el rol de la empatía, la actitud hacia la autoridad y la conducta violenta en la adolescencia (2009, background): “…no desarrollan adecuadamente la habilidad empática, que en buena medida se fomenta con la expresión de sentimientos en el seno familiar (Jolliffe y Farrington, 2004), lo que aumenta la probabilidad de que se desarrollen comportamientos hostiles hacia el otro, dificultando así la convivencia en el…”
Sex differences in direct aggression: What are the psychological mediators? (2006, background): “Empathy is also lower among offenders, d = -.28, particularly violent offenders, d = -.39 (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2004) and the relationship appears to be of equal magnitude for both sexes.”