Personality disorders in prisoners and their motivation for dangerous and disruptive behaviour

Abstract

The study supported a cognitive model explaining the functional association between personality disorder and antisocial behaviour. Personality disorders act as predisposing factors influencing the development of motivations and subsequently facilitate the enactment of disordered behaviour, in a linear progression. Assessment of personality disorder should be routine in disruptive and dangerous prisoners.

The prevalence of personality disorders in Portuguese male prison inmates: Implications for penitentiary treatment

“…Almost half of the crimes, by which participants from this sample were sentenced to prison, were crimes against people, which is in accordance with studies showing an association of violence and aggressive behavior with Cluster A and B Disorders (Coid, 2002;Johnson et al, 2000;Roberts & Coid, 2010;Warren et al, 2002;Warren & South, 2009). Borderline, Passive-Aggressive, Narcissistic, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders were the most frequently diagnosed disorders, after Antisocial and Paranoid Personality Disorders, which is also in line with previous findings (Black et al, 2007;Coid et al, 1999).…”

Personality disorder and offending behaviour: findings from the national survey of male prisoners in England and Wales

“…Narcissistic personality disorder is characterised by a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and is typically comorbid with antisocial personality disorder in offender samples (Coid, 2003). It has been argued that fraud offences require specific skills which may be associated with higher intelligence (Vitacco et al, 2005;Salekin et al, 2004).…”

“…Although offender populations have high prevalences of personality disorder (Coid, 2003), few previous studies have examined the relationship between all categories of personality disorder and offending behaviour in large samples of male and female offenders. Most have restricted their measures of personality disorder to a global diagnosis (Putkonen et al, 2003;Wallace et al, 1998), have measured only ASPD (Eronen et al, 1996;Hodgins, et al, 1996), or have included general measures of crime (Keeney et al, 1997).…”

Evaluación de la Identidad del Recluso mediante la Técnica de la Rejilla

“…Todos estos factores pueden derivar en la aparición de trastornos mentales, lo que requiere prestar especial atención a la salud mental del recluso (Coid, 2002;Earthrowl & Mccluy, 2002;Harty, Jarrett, Thornicroft, & Shaw, 2012;Ibrahim, Esena, Aikins, O'Keefe, & McKay, 2015;Olley et al, 2009). El encarcelamiento de las mujeres parece además tener repercusiones más negativas que en los hombres, relacionadas con la ruptura con el entorno familiar y la imposibilidad de desempeñar su papel de madre o cuidadora (de Miguel Calvo, 2014).…”

“…El análisis cuantitativo de los datos de una rejilla se puede llevar a cabo mediante el programa Record (Feixas & Cornejo, 1996;2002) o bien mediante el programa Idiogrid v2.4. (Grice 2002).…”