Personality Disorder and Psychopathy as Predictors of Psychosocial and Criminological Outcome in Mentally Disordered Offenders

Community DSPD pilot services in South London: Rates of reconviction and impact of supported housing on reducing recidivism

“…In these other samples, the mean age was 36 years, somewhat younger than in our sample (40 years), and we had a slightly lower proportion of white British participants (64.5%) than in two DSPD studies (90%, Burns et al, ; 80%, Fortune et al, ), although similar to that of another (63%, Freestone et al, ) in which participants had also been drawn from an inner city London borough. The level of personality disturbance in our series was very similar to that described elsewhere, for example in rates of multiple personality disorder diagnoses within any cluster (our finding: 55%; McCarthy et al, : 58%). There were similarities too in reported history of drug problems (79%) and alcohol problems in (73%) (Burns et al, ); over 70% of our men also had misused substances.…”

“…From forensic mental health services, Coid et al () found a reconviction rate of 15% at 12 months among a discharged medium secure sample and Alcock and White () reported a rate of 10% in a forensic community day hospital sample. McCarthy et al () found that of 53 patients who spent time in the community after discharge from a specialist personality disorder medium secure unit, just over half (28) reoffended within 5 years of discharge of which four were for violent offences, with a mean time to conviction of 122 days. By any of these standards, therefore, reconviction rates in our series were low.…”

Perfil del psicópata institucionalizado sin comportamiento criminal previo a su entrada en prisión

“…la literatura sobre la comisión de delitos violentos por parte del psicópata no institucionalizado y el criminal, nos dice que ambos presentan capacidad para llevarlos a cabo (Garrido, 2004;Pozueco et al, 2010). son varios los estudios empíricos que han relacionado los actos de mayor crueldad y violencia depredadora, las peores predicciones sobre reincidencia violenta, etc., con las consistencias de personalidad -comunes en ambos-en detrimento de aspectos conductuales -en los que difieren- (Declercq et al, 2012;Mccarthy et al, 2012;Sreenivasan et al, 2008). los resultados obtenidos corroboran dichos estudios, relacionándose la comisión de delitos violentos graves contra las personas, con puntuaciones significativamente más elevadas en los ítems sobre aspectos afectivos e interpersonales, no siendo así para los ítems sobre estilo de vida y conducta delictiva.…”

Development and validation of a treatment progress scale for personality disordered offenders

“…Results on predictive validity further supported the instrument's ability to capture meaningful change. This took into consideration prior observations on the PDS where high‐psychopathy scoring patients have shown both conservative completion rates and poorer post‐discharge outcomes (McCarthy & Duggan, ; McCarthy et al, ). Findings were consistent with these observations as patients with high psychopathy scores also showed poorer PRS scores over time.…”