Abstract

The limited research concerning trauma secondary to committing crime in justice-involved persons has been restricted to male forensic psychiatric and violent offender populations. We aimed to extend this by examining justice-involved persons’ memories about their crimes, and exploring factors involved in intrusive memories across offence types. One hundred justice-involved adult males completed a questionnaire package examining offence-related shame, guilt, instrumentality-reactivity, and memory characteristics. Forty-three percent reported intrusive memories of a crime they committed. These were experienced across all crime types, especially those with reactive elements. Shame was found to be the most significant correlate of intrusive memories over and above all other factors. While further research is needed (e.g., with justice-involved women), results are in line with theoretical foundations of posttraumatic stress disorder and shed light on psychological consequences of offending. The findings have implications for clinicians and researchers alike, in that intrusive memories and shame may be precipitating factors for related risk factors and would relatedly be worth considering when evaluating patterns of violence and creating relapse prevention plans.

摘要

关于涉及司法人员的犯罪所造成的创伤的有限研究仅限于男性法医精神病和暴力犯罪人群。我们旨在通过检查涉及司法的人对自己的犯罪的记忆，并探索涉及各种犯罪类型的侵入式记忆的因素，来扩展这一范围。一百名涉及司法的成年男性完成了一份调查表，调查了与犯罪有关的耻辱，内gui，工具反应性和记忆特征。43％的人报告说他们对自己的罪行有侵犯性记忆。这些经验适用于所有类型的犯罪，尤其是那些具有反动因素的犯罪。除了所有其他因素外，羞耻感是侵入性记忆的最重要关联。尽管需要进一步的研究（例如，涉及正义的妇女），结果符合创伤后应激障碍的理论基础，并揭示了犯罪的心理后果。该发现对临床医生和研究人员都具有启示意义，因为侵入性记忆和羞耻感可能是导致相关危险因素的诱因，并且在评估暴力模式和制定预防复发计划时也应考虑相关因素。