Abstract：
As Forensic Psychology continues to expand as an independent field, professionals regularly resort to psychological assessment tools to assess people involved within the justice system. The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a 344-item, self-report inventory that aims to provide meaningful information for diagnosis and clinical decision-making, specifically relating to psychopathology, personality, and psychosocial environment. Its applicability in forensic settings has been increasingly recognized on account of its benefits in comparison to other self-report inventories (e.g., MMPI-2, MCMI-III), since it includes scales that are relevant to forensic settings (e.g., violence risk levels, psychopathy, substance abuse), and the existence of profile distortion indicators is useful when dealing with highly defensive and/or malingering populations. The goal of this paper is to conduct a thorough review of the PAI\'s utility in forensic settings, by focusing on the relevant forensic constructs assessed by the PAI (e.g., personality disorders, psychosis, substance abuse, aggression, recidivism risk, and response distortion), as well as its application to offender and inmate populations, intimate partner violence contexts, family law cases, and forensic professionals. Overall, the PAI continues to gather international recognition and its relevance and usefulness in forensic settings is generally accepted and acknowledged.
摘要：
随着法医心理学作为一个独立的领域不断扩大，专业人员经常诉诸心理评估工具来评估司法系统中涉及的人员。人格评估清单(PAI)是344项，自我报告清单，旨在为诊断和临床决策提供有意义的信息，特别是关于精神病理学，个性,和社会心理环境。与其他自我报告清单相比，其在法医环境中的适用性已得到越来越多的认可（例如，MMPI-2,MCMI-III),因为它包括与法医设置相关的尺度(例如，暴力风险水平，精神病,药物滥用)，当处理高度防御性和/或恶意人群时，轮廓扭曲指标的存在是有用的。本文的目的是对PAI在法医环境中的实用程序进行全面审查，通过关注PAI评估的相关法医结构(例如，人格障碍,精神病,药物滥用,侵略,累犯风险，和响应失真)，以及它在罪犯和囚犯群体中的应用，亲密伴侣暴力背景，家庭法案件,和法医专业人员。总的来说,PAI继续获得国际认可，其在法医环境中的相关性和有用性得到了普遍接受和认可。
