Purpose Although intellectual disability (ID) and criminal offending have long been associated, the nature of this link is obfuscated by reliance on historically unrigorous means of assessing ID and fractionating social cognitive skills. The purpose of this paper is to review and report current findings and set an agenda for future research in social perception, social inference and social problem solving in ID violent offenders. Design/methodology/approach The literature is reviewed on comorbidity of criminal offending and ID, and on social cognitive impairment and ID offending. In an exploratory case-control series comprising six violent offenders with ID and five similarly able controls, emotion recognition and social inference are assessed by the Awareness of Social Inference Test and social problem-solving ability and style by an adapted Social Problem-Solving Inventory. Findings Violent offenders recognised all emotions except “anxious”. Further, while offenders could interpret and integrate wider contextual cues, absent such cues offenders were less able to use paralinguistic cues (e.g. emotional tone) to infer speakers’ feelings. Offenders in this sample exceeded controls’ social problem-solving scores. Originality/value This paper confirms that ID offenders, like neurotypical offenders, display specific deficits in emotion recognition – particularly fear recognition – but suggests that in ID offenders impairments of affect perception are not necessarily accompanied by impaired social problem solving. The implication for therapeutic practice is that ID offenders might be most effectively rehabilitated by targeting simpler, low-level cognitive processes, such as fear perception, rather than adapting treatment strategies from mainstream offenders.

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智障男性刑事罪犯的社会认知：情感感知能力不足吗？

目的尽管智障（ID）和犯罪行为之间长期存在联系，但这种联系的性质却因依赖历史上不严格的评估ID和分散社会认知技能的手段而变得模糊。本文的目的是回顾和报告当前的发现，并为日后暴力身份认同者的社会认知，社会推断和社会问题解决的研究设定议程。设计/方法/方法文献综述了犯罪行为和ID的合并症，以及社会认知障碍和ID犯罪。在一个探索性案件对照系列中，该案例包含六名具有ID的暴力罪犯和五名具有类似能力的控件，情绪识别和社交推理通过社交推理测试的意识进行评估，并通过改编的社交问题解决清单对社交问题解决能力和风格进行评估。调查结果暴力犯罪者认识到除“焦虑”以外的所有情绪。此外，尽管罪犯可以解释和整合更广泛的语境线索，但如果没有这些罪犯，罪犯就无法使用副语言线索（例如情感语调）来推断说话者的感受。此样本中的违规者超出了控制者解决社会问题的分数。原创性/价值这篇论文证实，与神经型犯罪者一样，ID犯罪者在情感识别（尤其是恐惧识别）方面表现出特定的缺陷，但建议在ID犯罪者中，情感知觉的损害不一定伴随着解决社会问题的能力下降。