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- Title
PERSONALITY DISORDERS IN MEN WITH SEXUAL AND VIOLENT CRIMINAL OFFENSE HISTORIES.
- Authors
Schroeder, Marc; Iffland, Joel Simeon; Hill, Andreas; Berner, Wolfgang; Briken, Peer
- Abstract
Little is known about personality disorders (PDs) in offenders with his-tories of both sexual and (nonsexual) violent offenses. This study aimed to identify possible differences of PD profiles across three different of-fender groups with both sexual and violent (S+V), only sexual (S), and only violent (V) offenses. Nonviolent (N) offenders were used as a com-parison group. Typing of individuals according to their offensive histo-ries was performed on the basis of 259 psychiatric court reports that included the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID)-II for PD diagnostics. Men from the S+V group committed significantly more acts of rape and sexual coercion than the mere sexual offenders. Furthermore, S+V of-fenders showed the highest rates of PDs overall (68.3%), with every sec-ond offender being diagnosed with an antisocial PD and every third of-fender with a borderline PD. In summary, the results suggest that S+V offenders form a group of individuals with remarkable differences re-garding PD profiles, the relatively highest frequencies of conduct disor-ders, familial addictive problems, and PDs overall.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; CHI-squared test; CRIMINALS; MEN; PERSONALITY disorders; SEX offenders; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); VIOLENCE; DATA analysis; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 4, p519
- ISSN
0885-579X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/pedi_2012_26_050