RE: ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER AND CRIMINAL
BEHAVIOR
I am writing to inform you of the research findings from the three
recent articles. The research articles include “Etiology of Antisocial
Personality Disorder: The Differential Roles Of Adverse Childhood
Experiences and Childhood Psychopathology,” “Neural Mechanisms
Underlying Affective Theory of Mind in Violent Antisocial Personality
Disorder or Schizophrenia,” and “Offenders with Antisocial Personality
Disorder Display More Impairment In Metalizing.” These articles discuss
typical concepts related to antisocial personality disorder and criminal
behavior.
In their article, Delisi et al. (2019) investigate the position of
environmental factors in evaluating antisocial personality disorder (ASPD),
which contributes to criminological attention. The authors elaborate on
the contribution of neglect and abuse to childhood psychopathology and
criminal offending. The writers examine the antecedent factors that span
childhood experiences and psychopathology associated with illegal
behaviors.
The research employs retrospectives to obtain data from
correctional clients in the Midwest. The authors collected data from a
population of 863 correctional participants who were under prison watch
after obeying the confinement sentence. The population of males was
84%, females 16%, which were further categorized as Black Americans
20.6%, white Americans 79.4%, non-Hispanic 92%, and 8% Hispanic with
an average age of 44 years old.
The article investigates the association of ASPD to violence and crime. The
authors examine environmental factors contributing to ASPD development
associated with criminal behaviors.
The researchers employ multinomial regression and one-way of variance
(ANOVA) to test the variable.
The childhood experience is associated with the ASPD since the abuse and
neglect experiences appear.
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Schiffer et al. (2017) investigate the relationship of schizophrenia with the
risks of hostile behaviors, such as violence and criminality.
The research involved three groups, 13 male offenders with both
schizophrenia and CD/ASPD. The next group comprised 16 violent
offenders indicating schizophrenia but lacking CD/ASPD. Lastly,
researchers chose approximately 18 individuals with CD/ASPD and
schizophrenia but lacking acute mental illness.
The article investigates the underlying neural mechanism of the mind
associated with schizophrenia. It also examines the variance of two
groups in the neutral activation and sense theory. Other factors include
criminality and violence.
The research employs the one-way of variance (ANOVA) to test the
activation pattern for the three groups.
The researchers reveal that an intervention is necessary to reduce
violence among the two groups of offenders with ASPD.
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Newbury-Helps et al. (2017) examine the social cognition concerning
exact envisioning mental problems in individuals with an antisocial
personality disorder and a violent history.
The researchers recruited 83 males with known conditions of convicted
offenses.
The article investigates the specific social cognition challenges of
individuals with a violent history and antisocial response to visualizing
mental states. The variables included violent history and antisocial
response.
The ANOVA and Shapiro-Wilk test was employed to estimate the
impairment of metalizing on offenders with antisocial personalities.
The offender indicates exact mentalizing impairments within the entire
population. This condition is acute to people with antisocial personality
disorders. The finding is essential in improving risk assessment and
clinical interventions.
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Question# B Comparison
The articles provide an in-depth understanding of the relationship
between ASPD and criminal behaviors. The review of ASPD history on
criminal offenders can help provide accurate psychological intervention.
The articles elaborate on the relationship between ASPD and the risk of
hostile behaviors in childhood correlated with criminality and violence.
These articles improve individuals’ understanding of individuals’ clinical
interventions for antisocial personality disorder and criminal behavior. The
results of the papers appear contradictory because of the different
variables of interest.
References
DeLisi, M., Drury, A. J., & Elbert, M. J. (2019). The etiology of antisocial
personality disorder: The differential roles of adverse childhood
experiences and childhood psychopathology.Comprehensive
Psychiatry,92, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2019.04.001
Newbury-Helps, J., Feigenbaum, J., & Fonagy, P. (2017). Offenders with
antisocial personality disorder display more impairments in
mentalizing.Journal of Personality Disorders, 31(2), 232-255.
https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2016_30_246
Schiffer, B., Pawliczek, C., Müller, B. W., Wiltfang, J., Brüne, M., Forsting,
M., Gizewski, E. R., Leygraf, N., & Hodgins, S. (2017). Neural mechanisms
underlying affective theory of mind in violent antisocial personality
disorder and/or schizophrenia.Schizophrenia Bulletin,43(6), 1229-1239.
https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbx012
