ABSTRACT

Sexual offending is a highly relevant public health problem. The effectiveness of policies and interventions aimed at the reduction of violent (sexual and nonsexual) recidivism depends on our ability to develop accurate risk assessment tools. To assess the association between violence risk and psychopathy and dysfunctional personality traits in sexual offending, a national sample of 82 male sex offenders were administered the Italian translations of the HCR-20 V-3, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, and the Personality Inventory for DSM-5. Selected demographic variables were significantly and non-negligibly associated with increased risk of violence; moreover, specific PID-5 traits were found to be significantly, positively, and non-negligibly associated with sexual offender’s increased risk for violence. According to our findings, sexual offenders who were not working before conviction, have to serve a long time in jail, manifest prominent observer-rated psychopathy features, and report high scores on restricted affectivity, intimacy avoidance, callousness, distractibility, and irresponsibility, over and above their PID-5 psychopathy-related personality profile and PCL-R total score, are likely to have an increased risk for general violence. Our findings suggested that personality dysfunctions, as they are assessed relying on both PCL-R and PID-5, may play a major role as risk factors for general violence in male adult sexual offenders. Overall, our study provided useful data for increasing the understanding of the risk for general violence among male adult sexual offenders.

摘要

性犯罪是一个高度相关的公共卫生问题。旨在减少暴力（性和非性）再犯的政策和干预措施的有效性取决于我们开发准确的风险评估工具的能力。为了评估暴力风险与心理疾病和性犯罪中人格功能失调之间的关联，我们对82名男性性犯罪者的国家样本进行了HCR-20 V-3的意大利语翻译，《心理疾病清单》修订版以及DSM-5。选定的人口统计学变量与暴力风险增加显着且不可忽略地相关；此外，发现特定的PID-5特征与性犯罪者增加的暴力风险显着，正相关且不可忽略。根据我们的调查结果，在定罪前未工作的性犯罪者必须长期入狱，表现出明显的观察者评定的精神病特征，并在限制的情感，避免亲密，call弱，分心和不负责任等方面得分较高并且高于其PID-5精神病相关的人格特征和PCL-R总分，可能会增加发生一般暴力的风险。我们的研究结果表明，人格功能障碍是根据PCL-R和PID-5进行评估的，可能是男性成年性罪犯普遍暴力的危险因素。总体而言，我们的研究提供了有用的数据，以增进对成年男性性罪犯普遍暴力风险的了解。