Trastornos de personalidad y conducta delictivaanálisis diferencial en una muestra de reclusos

Abstract

Current studies on crime are inclined to conclude the relationship between personality disorder and violence, crime and recidivism in the maintenance of deviant behavioral consistencies. This study raises the incidence of personality disorders in people with life history of criminal activity as an aggravating factor in the maintenance of deviant behavior. Participants were 157 inmates of the prison of Villabona (Principality of Asturias, Spain), with age range between 19 and 49 years who responded voluntarily to a structured interview and questionnaire IPDE (Loranger, 1995), which sets standards Clinical Personality Disorders as classified by the ICD-10. We study the differential relation with the type of offense variables, age at first offense punishable and recidivism, the results reported a relationship between the mental health of the sample with the criminal career. Finally we study the predictive power of the criminal career and personality disorders in the rate of recidivism in relation to the type of crime, only to find significant relationships in two of the types of crimes which have been categorized, particularly those relating to crimes against public health and crimes against persons