Risk assessments and recidivism among a population‐based group of Swedish offenders sentenced to life in prison

Abstract

This small, but population-based, study demonstrates that antisocial behaviour shows incremental predictive validity for reoffending among life-sentenced offenders, but other measures have little to add for this specific task. The fact that those life sentenced prisoners who reoffended did so so soon after release should prompt allocation of earlier interventions towards preventing this.

Differentiating Male and Female Intimate Partner Homicide Perpetrators: A Study of Social, Criminological and Clinical Factors

“…Consequently, they conclude that their findings are in agreement with the notion of "uniqueness" of IPV in comparison to general crime and violence (Moffitt et al, 2000). In line with this, a Swedish study on risk assessments and recidivism in offenders serving lifetime sentences demonstrated that offenders of domestic violent offenses scored the lowest on the most commonly used risk assessments in judicial and clinical settings -the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and the Historical, Clinical and Risk Management-20 (HCR-20;Sturup, Karlberg, Fredriksson, Lihoff, & Kristiansson, 2016). This might suggest that the typical risk assessments are less useful with regards to offenses within the domestic sphere.…”

Male-on-Female Sexual Homicides in Sweden, 1990 to 2013: A Population-Based Controlled Study of Incidents, Victims, and Offenders

“…As described in the flowchart in Figure 1, there were 33 sexual homicide victims (SHVs) from 33 offences, 27 of the 33 offences were solved, and among the solved cases, there were three offenders who were serial offenders and had killed two victims each resulting in 24 SHOs. All cases were scrutinized by three of the authors before they were included as sexual homicide cases and doubled checked to other ongoing homicide studies (Sturup, Karlberg & Kristiansson, 2015; Sturup et al, 2016; Sturup, 2018). Examples of individuals who knew each other vaguely are two neighbors who occasionally met each other and said hello but never really talked to each other, or a female cashier in the local store and a male regular customer.…”

“…Nonetheless, personality disorders and maladaptive personality traits are common features among SHOs, in which antisocial and borderline personality disorders appear to be predominant (Häkkänen-Nyholm et al, 2009; Hill, Habermann, Berner, & Briken, 2007; Proulx & Sauvêtre, 2007). Moreover, psychopathic traits are prevailing in these offenders (Häkkänen-Nyholm et al, 2009; Hill et al, 2007; Kerr et al, 2013, Sturup et al, 2016), and SHOs with psychopathic traits are more prone to perpetrate sadistic and gruesome violence (Porter, Woodworth, Earle, Drugge, & Boer, 2003).…”

The role of psychopathic traits among intimate partner-violent men: A systematic review

“…Despite a large body of literature suggesting the strong predictive power of psychopathy on dangerousnessviolent and aggressive behavior (Hecht, Berg, Lilienfeld, & Latzman, 2016;Reidy et al, 2015), violent criminal behavior (Dil & Kazmi, 2016;Wiklund, Ruchkin, Koposov, & Af Klinteberg, 2014), recidivism (Richards et al, 2016;Sturup, Karlberg, Fredriksson, Lihoff, & Kristiansson, 2016), and even violent recidivism (Richards et al, 2016;Sitney, Caldwell, & Caldwell, 2016)little is known about the role of psychopathic traits in IPV perpetration. Although traditional batterer typologies have suggested that psychopaths could belong to a specific batterer subtype-type 86 1 batterers, proposed by Gottman et al (1995), and Jacobson and Gottman (1998), or generally violent/antisocial (GVA) batterers, proposed by Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart (1994)-further empirical studies testing these hypotheses are necessary.…”