The applicability and utility of the MMPI‐based offender classification system in a correctional mental health unit

Bohn, Martin J.; Carbonell, Joyce L.; Megargee, Edwin I.

doi:10.1002/cbm.1995.5.1.14

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“…As expected, higher proportions of the more deviant types were encountered in forensic mental health units and facilities for psychiatrically disturbed prisoners (Bohn, Carbonell, & Megargee, 1995).…”

Section: Mmpi-2 and The Mmpi-based Classification Systemsupporting

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Using the Megargee MMPI-based classification system with the MMPI-2s of female prison inmates.

Megargee¹

1997

Psychological Assessment

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This study extends Megargee's Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-based classification system to female offenders. MMPI-2s of 400 women in state and federal prisons were rescored and reconfigured to estimate their original MMPT profiles. Their MMPIs and MMPI-2s were classified according to the rules devised for the original MMPI. Next, the MMPI-2S were reclassified using new rules for classifying the MMPI-2s of male offenders. Neither approach led to satisfactory agreement between MMPI and MMPI-2. A major problem was that Scale 5 was more prominent in the women's MMPI-2 profiles than on their MMPIs. Using revised rules for classifying the original MMPIs and the MMPI-2s of female offenders, 386 of the 400 women (97%) could be classified on both versions of the MMPI, of whom 336 (87%) were classified identically.From 1973 through 1993, the number of people incarcerated in state and federal prisons in the United States increased 446%. During that period the rate of increase among female offenders (846%) was almost twice that of their male counterparts (435%; Maguire & Pastore, 1995).It is well established that reliable, valid classification systems are essential in correctional management and programming, especially when the need for services and programs exceeds the available resources (National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, 1973). Indeed, the courts are now holding that prisoners have a constitutional right to rational,

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Using the Megargee MMPI-based classification system with the MMPI-2s of female prison inmates.

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1997

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“…The typologies most relevant to patients at high risk for violence arguably are of people who have often been violent and who have high likelihoods of mental disorders. Thus, we reviewed typologies of prisoners (Bohn, Carbonell, & Megargee, 1995;Van Voorhis, 1988Wrobel, Wrobel, & McIntosh, 1988), mentally disordered offenders (Blackburn, 1975(Blackburn, , 1996(Blackburn, , 1998Blackburn & Coid, 1999;Toch & Adams, 1994;Wales, 1995), "difficult" psychiatric patients (Nakatani, Ohki, Yamada, Iwanami, & Fujimori, 1992), and male batterers (Hamberger, Lohr, Bonge, & Tolin, 1996;Holtzworth-Munroe, 2000;Holtzworth-Munroe & Stuart, 1994). 1 We did not review typologies that have not been empirically investigated (e.g., Litwack & Schlesinger, 1987;Walker, 1991).…”

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Identifying Subtypes of Civil Psychiatric Patients at High Risk for Violence

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Advances in risk assessment have improved the ability to identify psychiatric patients at high risk for violence. Identifying these patients is necessary for developing treatment to address their needs. However, if violence is caused by risk factors that vary across patients, relatively homogeneous subgroups of high-risk patients must be identified and studied to develop effective risk management programs for each. This study was designed to identify and describe valid subtypes of patients reliably identified as at high risk by the multiple Iterative Classification Tree (ICT) risk assessment approach. After existing typologies of violent individuals were integrated to develop hypothesized subtypes of high-risk patients, data on 165 patients identified as at high risk by the multiple ICT were used to determine whether clinically meaningful subtypes could be identified and externally validated. Three groups (alpha, beta, and delta) largely consistent with the hypothesized subtypes and their correlates were identified. The implications of these findings for research and treatment development efforts are discussed

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“…Offenders assigned to Charlie and How usually require further mental health evaluation (Megargee et al, 2001). Both groups are more common in American correctional mental health units (Bohn et al, 1995;Hutton et al, 1993;N. H. Wrobel et al, 1988;T.…”

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“…Since the initial publication of the classification system (Megargee, 1977a;Megargee & Bohn, 1979), many studies have applied it within a variety of American correctional settings: federal correctional institutions (e.g., Bohn, Carbonell, & Megargee, 1995;Lousher, Hosford, & Moss, 1983;Hanson, Moss, Hosford, & Johnson, 1983;Van Voorhis, 1994), state prisons (e.g., Booth & Howell, 1980;Carey, Garske, & Ginsberg, 1986;Walters, Mann, Miller, Hemphill, & Chlumsky, 1988;Wright, 1988), military prisons (Walters, 1986;Walters, Scrapansky, & Marrlow, 1986;Walters et al, 1988), halfway houses (Motiuk, Bonta, & Andrews, 1986;Mrad, Kabacoff, & Duckro, 1983), forensic mental health settings (Bohn et al, 1995;Hutton, Miner, & Langfeldt, 1993;T. A. Wrobel, Calovini, & Martin, 1991;N.…”

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Cross-Cultural Reliability and Generality of the Megargee Offender Classification System

Rossi

Sloore

2008

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The cross-cultural reliability and generality of the offender classification system developed by E. I. Megargee et al. was examined. A hierarchical cluster analytic approach was used to identify Megargee's Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—2 based types in a sample of Belgian male federal prisoners ( N = 1,636). Six types (i.e., Able, Charlie, Delta, Easy, How, and Item) were clearly replicated, albeit with variable reliability in terms of goodness-of-fit. Types Baker, Foxtrot, George, and Jupiter were not supported. Instead, another meaningful MMPI-2 type was identified, labelled 4-6, because Scales 4 and 6 were the two highest scales with a T score of 65 or higher. Cross-national cluster analytic research is necessary to further examine the cross-cultural reliability and generality of the types identified in the current study.

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The applicability and utility of the MMPI‐based offender classification system in a correctional mental health unit

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Using the Megargee MMPI-based classification system with the MMPI-2s of female prison inmates.

Using the Megargee MMPI-based classification system with the MMPI-2s of female prison inmates.

Identifying Subtypes of Civil Psychiatric Patients at High Risk for Violence

Cross-Cultural Reliability and Generality of the Megargee Offender Classification System

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