The relation between dimensions of personality and personality pathology and offence type and severity in juvenile delinquents

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The relation between dimensions of personality and personality pathology and offence type and severity in juvenile delinquents Nederlof, E.; van der Ham, A.; Dingemans, P.M.A.J.; Oei, T.I. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. In a representative sample of 142 incarcerated Dutch male juveniles, normal personality dimensions were assessed with the Big Five Inventory and pathological personality dimensions with the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology -Basic Questionnaire for Adolescents. Participants' criminal charges were derived from TULPYouth, an official Dutch judicial registration system. Charges were categorized (against morality/against life/violent/violent with property/ property) and were assigned a signal value representing their severity. Personality dimensions appear not to be related to offence type or severity. Other factors are suggested to be of greater importance, like the trajectory of criminal development and a possible neuro-maturational gap, causing sensitivity to juvenile delinquency at a certain age. Recommendations for further research are presented.

Psychiatric disorders in adolescent boys in detention: a preliminary prevalence and case–control study in two Chinese provinces

“…Personality problems are also prevalent (Nederlof, van der Ham, Dingemans, & Oei, 2010). Detained adolescents with mental health problems are at increased risk of a range of adverse outcomes including premature mortality, suicide and death from other causes Rodway, Norrington-Moore, While et al, 2011), drug and alcohol problems (Chassin, Knight, Vargas-Chanes, Losoya, & Naranjo, 2009;McClelland, Elkington, Teplin, & Abram, 2004;Neighbors, Kempton, & Forehand, 1992;Palmer, Jinks, & Hatcher, 2010;Sacks et al, 2009), and increased rates of reoffending (Hollander & Turner, 1985;Ramchand, Morral, & Becker, 2009;Walter, Wiesbeck, Dittmann, & Graf, 2011).…”

Tipologías en delincuencia juvenil: una revisión de literatura

“…Um total de 13 artigos tiveram como objetivo identificar perfis com relação a características psicológicas em adolescentes infratores (Aebi et al, 2015;Aebi et al, 2016;Alarcon et al, 2005;Blackburn, 2000;Cauffman et al, 2004;Decuyper et al, 2013;Edens et al, 2011;Espelage et al, 2003;Nederlof et al, 2010;Stefurak & Calhoun, 2007;Stefurak et al, 2004;Taylor et al, 2006;Vinet & Bañares, 2009). Cinco desses se propuseram a investigar diferenças no campo psicológico entre adolescentes infratores utilizando o mesmo instrumento, o Inventário Clínico para Adolescentes de Millon (MACI) que, embora constitua um inventário de avaliação de personalidade geral, é muito utilizado para estudar delinquência juvenil em razão de algumas de suas escalas.…”

“…Nesses se verificou que os diferentes perfis psicológicos não se mostraram associados a diferentes tipos de delitos. Apesar disso, é pontuar que os autores buscaram uma relação entre os perfis psicológicos e os delitos oficiais, o que não necessariamente expressa o padrão comportamental de delitos dos adolescentes, como já se demonstrou em outras pesquisas da área (Taylor et al, 2006;Nederlof et al, 2010). Nederlof et al (2010) também discutem que a compreensão da trajetória do comportamento delituoso é mais importante que a análise dos delitos oficiais.…”

Personality, Family Environment in the Family of Origin, as Well as the Existing Climate Within the Educational Center in Adolescents and Youth Convicted of Violent Crimes. Pilot Study

“…The result was similar in the case of 216 high school students between 16 and 19 years old (108 girls and 106 boys) who were attending a Catholic school in New South Wales, identifying a significant negative correlation between agreeableness and interpersonal violence (for both sexes), and in the case of boys, a significant negative correlation was also highlighted between agreeableness and vandalism/theft (Heaven, 1996). Nederlof et al (2010) however, assessing the relationship between personality, the type of charges (crime against morality/against life/violent/violent with property/property), and the severity of the crime in a sample of 108 boys between 12-21 years old in custody in a detention center in the Netherlands, remanded in custody or sentenced to detention without compulsory treatment, showed that none of the five personality dimensions was significantly associated with the type or severity of the offense.…”