Mental and personality disorders as well as personality traits in a Swedish male criminal population

Longato-Stadler, Eva; Knorring, Lars von; Hallman, Jarmila

doi:10.1080/080394802753617962

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“…Large cross‐sectional prison studies (> 500 prisoners) fulfilling the other inclusion criteria were included for comparison [3,5,23–26]. A number of smaller cross‐sectional studies were thus excluded [12,27–33].…”

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Substance abuse and dependence in prisoners: a systematic review

2006

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The prevalence of substance abuse and dependence, although highly variable, is typically many orders of magnitude higher in prisoners than the general population, particularly for women with drug problems. This highlights the need for screening for substance abuse and dependence at reception into prison, effective treatment while in custody, and follow-up on release. Specialist addiction services for prisoners have the potential to make a considerable impact.

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Substance abuse and dependence in prisoners: a systematic review

2006

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“…The subjects came from two different high-security prisons in Sweden. For detailed information on the subjects, see Longato-Stadler et al [18]. The calculations presented are based on data on the 99 offenders from whom complete data on blood samples, personality inventories and results of the Structured Clinical Interview I and II for DSM-IV (SCID) were obtained.…”

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Personality Traits and Platelet Monoamine Oxidase Activity in a Swedish Male Criminal Population

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Background: A Swedish male criminal population was grouped into personality disorder subgroups and investigated with regard to personality traits and platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity. The main aim of the study was to examine the possibility of a risk factor combination by having low platelet MAO activity as well as belonging to a certain diagnostic DSM-IV axis I (drug abuse in the present series) and/or II subgroup. Methods: Personality disorders were grouped into clusters according to the cluster system used in DSM-IV axis II. The prisoners were grouped into five subgroups and each subject completed the Karolinska Scales of Personality self-report questionnaire. The comparison group for the personality data comprised 51 non-criminal males from a longitudinal Swedish project. Platelet MAO activity was assessed for the criminals as well as for a control group including 60 non-criminal healthy male Caucasians. For testing the existence of syndromes, a configuration frequency analysis (CFA) was used. Results: The results showed low scores on the socialisation and high scores on the sensation seeking-related traits impulsiveness and monotony avoidance, and the somatic anxiety-related muscular tension in the criminals with any DSM-IV mental disorder, however most markedly in cluster AB and cluster B subjects. In addition, cluster AB subjects had significantly lower platelet MAO activity than controls. Two significant ‘types’ were found among the criminals: one was characterised by low platelet MAO activity, cluster B personality diagnosis as well as drug abuse disorder diagnosis; and the other by a pattern of normal platelet MAO activity, no cluster B personality disorder and no drug abuse disorder diagnosis. Conclusion: The aggregation of certain risk factors in the same individual has been shown to contribute to the development of criminal behaviour.

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“…The Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) is a selfreport including 135 items to be answered with one of four suggested answers: poor accordance, no particular accordance, fair accordance or absolute accordance. The KSP has been widely used in research concerning correlations between personality traits and psychiatric, somatic and genetic conditions 15,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] , and its stability and validity have also been evaluated 29 . The KSP is grouped into 15 scales as shown in Table 1, covering three main areas of personality: anxiety, extraversion, and aggression-hostility.…”

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confidence: 99%