J Michael Maurer, Bethany G Edwards, Carla L Harenski, Jean Decety, Kent A Kiehl
{"title":"Do psychopathic traits vary with age among women? A cross-sectional investigation.","authors":"J Michael Maurer, Bethany G Edwards, Carla L Harenski, Jean Decety, Kent A Kiehl","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2022.2036220","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14789949.2022.2036220","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies with men suggest that certain psychopathic traits vary with age. Specifically, younger men score higher on psychopathic traits measuring impulsive-antisocial behavior, including impulsivity, irresponsibility, and criminal versatility, compared to older men. On the other hand, younger and older men score comparably on psychopathic traits reflecting core personality traits of interpersonal and affective dysfunction, including conning and manipulative behavior and a lack of empathy, guilt, and remorse. However, it is currently not known whether psychopathic traits similarly vary with age among women. This study examined whether psychopathy scores (assessed via the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised [PCL-R]) varied with age among a sample of 501 incarcerated women ranging from 19 to 57 years of age. Consistent with previous studies performed with men, younger women scored higher on psychopathic traits measuring impulsive-antisocial behavior (i.e., PCL-R Factor 2, Facet 3, and Facet 4 scores) compared to older women. However, scores on PCL-R Factor 1, Facet 1, and Facet 2, assessing core personality traits, including interpersonal and affective dysfunction, were comparable across women in different age categories investigated. Results obtained in this preliminary study suggest the variation of PCL-R Factor 2 traits and the stability of PCL-R Factor 1 traits across the lifespan is invariant across gender.</p>","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8865477/pdf/nihms-1776468.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10689193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personal elements in culture-based violence? The case of honor killing - a brief report","authors":"Vered Ne’Eman Haviv","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2020.1786595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2020.1786595","url":null,"abstract":"Honor killing is a global phenomenon that has been extensively studied in the sociological-cultural-patriarchal context. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether there are personality...","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80159685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group size, misinformation and unanimity influences on co-witness judgements","authors":"D. Mojtahedi, Maria Ioannou, Laura Hammond","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2018.1439990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2018.1439990","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Researchers have typically observed the effects of co-witness influence on eyewitness pairs. However, research suggests that individuals are more likely to witness crimes in larger groups. Additionally, there is an abundance of evidence suggesting that social influence is heavily moderated by group size. Therefore, the present study aimed to gain a more accurate understanding of the risks of co-witness influence in relation to unanimity and group size effects. Participants (N = 608) viewed and discussed a CCTV footage of a fight breaking out, with co-witnesses, before giving individual statements, where they were asked to identify which person had started the fight; confederates were used to suggest that the wrong man had started the fight. Results indicated that participants were vulnerable to co-witness influence, but only when exposed to misinformation from a majority of co-witnesses. Misinformation presented by an individual confederate did not have a significant influence over the participants’ responses. This study was the first to investigate the effects of group size on blame attribution. The findings suggest that the true risks of co-witness influence may not be as high as originally predicted from research on eyewitness pairs.","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14789949.2018.1439990","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59875425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The clinician-patient working alliance: Is it a significant predictor of psychiatric medication adherence in a sample of recently released parolees?","authors":"Stacy Calhoun","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2018.1477976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2018.1477976","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Persistent psychiatric symptoms can serve as a major barrier to the successful reintegration of parolees with mental illness. Thus, it is important to identify factors that might impact their mental health recovery, such as low adherence to their treatment regimen. Although many studies have examined the issue of psychiatric medication nonadherence, very few studies have focused specifically on justice-involved individuals. The strength of the clinician/patient working alliance has been found to be significantly associated with psychiatric medication adherence in prior research, but this relationship has not been assessed in a parolee population. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine if patient-rated working alliance was a significant predictor of low psychiatric medication adherence while taking into account alcohol/illegal drug use, age, and ethnicity in a sample of recently released parolees with mental illness (N=49). Patient-rated working alliance, age, and ethnicity were not significant predictors of low adherence. Alcohol/illegal drug use during the follow-up period was associated with a significantly increased likelihood of meeting the criteria for low medication adherence (OR=8.36; 95% CI=1.60, 43.66). The findings from this study highlight the importance of addressing alcohol and illegal drug use issues as part of the psychiatric treatment plan for returning prisoners with mental illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14789949.2018.1477976","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36748504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Verity Wainwright, Charlotte Lennox, Sharon McDonnell, Jenny Shaw, Jane Senior
{"title":"The mental health and substance misuse needs of male ex-armed forces personnel in prison.","authors":"Verity Wainwright, Charlotte Lennox, Sharon McDonnell, Jenny Shaw, Jane Senior","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2017.1352012","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14789949.2017.1352012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ex-armed forces personnel constitute the largest known occupational group in prison but there is little evidence regarding their mental health, or substance misuse, needs. A total of 105 participants were interviewed and measures assessing symptoms of common mental health (CMH) problems and substance misuse were completed along with a review of their health care records. Forty (38%) participants screened for current CMH problems (CCMH) and high levels of dual symptomology and alcohol misuse were assessed. Thirty-nine (37%) had a mental health diagnosis recorded, most commonly for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and personality disorder. Those who screened for a CCMH problem were more likely to have pre-service vulnerability to negative health outcomes and those with dual symptomology were more likely to have experienced deployment during their service. Findings suggest the mental health needs of this group are similar to the general prison population. Potentially higher prevalences of PTSD and alcohol misuse may direct service provision.</p>","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5706966/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35654648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Violence prevention in psychiatry: an umbrella review of interventions in general and forensic psychiatry.","authors":"Achim Wolf, Daniel Whiting, Seena Fazel","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2017.1284886","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14789949.2017.1284886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Relative risks of violence in psychiatric patients are high compared to the general population and existing evidence in non-psychiatric populations may not translate to reductions in violence in psychiatric populations. We searched 10 databases including Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Scopus, from inception until August 2015 for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of violence prevention interventions in psychiatry. Reviews were included if they used a hard outcome measure (i.e. police or hospital recorded violence, or reincarceration) and contained randomized or non-randomized controlled studies. Five reviews met our inclusion criteria (<i>n</i> = 8876 patients in total), of which four received a GRADE rating of 'low' or 'very low'. Three randomized studies (<i>n</i> = 636) reported that therapeutic community interventions may reduce reincarceration in drug-using offenders with co-occurring mental illness ('moderate' GRADE rating). The lack of intervention research in violence prevention in general and forensic psychiatry suggests that interventions from non-psychiatric populations may need to be relied upon.</p>","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396870/pdf/emss-74884.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37019228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Severe personality disorder, treatment engagement and the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012: what you need to know.","authors":"Leon McRae","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2016.1155227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2016.1155227","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Empirical research has demonstrated a link between legal coercion and treatment engagement following conviction among those with severe personality disorder. Legal coercive pressures were often applied by the Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP), until it was replaced by the Extended Determinate Sentence by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. In this paper, it is proposed that use of the new determinate sentence will lessen motivation for treatment engagement. One effect of treatment refusal may be greater reliance by the Secretary of State for Justice on his jurisdiction to transfer prisoners due for release to secure hospital transfers under the Mental Health Act 1983. Not only will this risk posturing undermine the principal aim of the Offender Personality Disorder Implementation Pathway to improve treatment engagement among the target group, it will also have negative implications for medical practitioners working in secure forensic hospitals. To demonstrate what is at stake, the paper briefly recapitulates empirical findings familiar to readers of the journal, before drawing on original unpublished data.</p>","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2016-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14789949.2016.1155227","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34349452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judges' views on evidence of genetic contributions to mental disorders in court.","authors":"Colleen M Berryessa","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2016.1173718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2016.1173718","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This preliminary analysis assesses how judges view the use of behavioral genetics evidence on genetic influences to mental disorders in court. Twenty-one semi-structured interviews, analyzed using constant comparative analysis, were conducted with California trial court judges. Most judges reported the beneficial effects of this evidence being presented in court, particularly as a mitigating factor for sentencing. Yet some judges viewed it as an aggravating factor and expressed concerns about genetic privacy. Judges described initial reactions to being potentially presented with evidence on genetic influences to mental disorders as apprehension, curiosity, and sympathy. Judges also reported putting significant trust in experts on these issues. Findings suggest some judges are skeptical of this evidence, but largely open to its presentation. Sympathetic reactions may result in mitigating attitudes of some judges. As judges significantly trust experts, some judges could also be overly trusting of genetic evidence and expert opinion on these issues.","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14789949.2016.1173718","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34417445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susan Iyican, Johannah M Sommer, Sheetal Kini, Julia C Babcock
{"title":"Collateral Report of Psychopathy: Convergent and Divergent Validity of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Short Form.","authors":"Susan Iyican, Johannah M Sommer, Sheetal Kini, Julia C Babcock","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2015.1018926","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14789949.2015.1018926","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychopathy is a personality syndrome comprised of interpersonal, affective, and behavioral features that has emerged as a correlate of intimate partner violence perpetration. One commonly used self-report measure of psychopathy is the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Short Form. The current study employed a multi-trait, multi-method approach to test convergent and discriminant validity of the measure in partner-violent couples by comparing males' self-report of psychopathy to the informant report of their female partner (N = 114). It was hypothesized that the female partner-report of the male's psychopathy would be highly correlated with the male report of his own psychopathy, thus providing evidence for the construct validity and interrater reliability of the PPI-SF. Analyses found that male and female reports were correlated significantly on the two major factors of the PPI-SF. Furthermore, the female-report explained a significant amount of variance over and above men's self-report on PAI scales designed to indicate antisocial personality traits.</p>","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512663/pdf/nihms667428.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33938092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A survey of how clinicians in forensic personality disorder services engage their service users in treatment.","authors":"Martin Clarke, Peter Fardouly, Mary McMurran","doi":"10.1080/14789949.2013.862292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14789949.2013.862292","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Non-completion is a significant problem in treatments for personality disorder (PD), and is associated with poorer outcomes. Clinicians routinely attend to engagement issues with people diagnosed with PD and so we accessed their views about the techniques they used to facilitate treatment engagement with service users with PD. Twenty-three clinicians from a range of disciplines were asked how they defined treatment engagement, what they thought were the causes of treatment engagement problems in people with PD, and what techniques or strategies they used to enhance engagement of people with PD. Data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis. Staff working with people with PD have broad views on the factors that are implicated in treatment engagement for their client group. Consequently, the techniques they use to engage service users are wide-ranging, addressing issues to do with services, individuals, therapies and therapists. Given the limited published data thus far, the suggestions generated may be of value to other practitioners in improving service user engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":47524,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14789949.2013.862292","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32651302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}