Antisocial Personality Disorders among Criminals

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Antisocial Personality Disorders among Criminals
Antisocial personality disorder is very common among criminals. Criminals normally have had something in their lives happen to cause these acts of violence or rule-breaking to occur. Personality disorders and social problems are common not only in criminals, but in the general population. The extent to which innocent people are effected by disorders from criminals are diverse, with some actually losing their lives and loved ones. This report it will include: signs of antisocial personality disorders among criminals, testing, the trigger of these criminals to act out, causes, statics, treatment and how people around the criminal are affected by the antisocial personality disorders.
There is always symptoms with an issue such as a car problem, the common cold, diseases, and psychological problems. Although, in this situation the symptoms of psychological problems are really common in criminals. This psychological problem is antisocial personality disorder. “Antipersonality disorder is a characterized by disregard for social obligations, and callous unconcern for the feelings of others.” (Long, n.d.) I most circumstances, people who have antisocial personality disorders need to meet certain criteria: social norm with respect to lawfully behaviors (repeated acts of for arrest.), repeated lying, aliases or conning others for profit/ pleasure, failure to plan in advance, aggression and repeated physical assaults, no care for safety for others or oneself, irresponsibility and unable to keep consistent work, lack of remorse. “Major age appropriate societal norms or rules are violated, as manifested by the present of 3 of the following fifteen criteria:” bullies, threatens or intimidates ...

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... disorders are common among criminals. As mentioned before scientist Francia et al, looked at 251 rapists and 311 child molesters and compared them with a group of nonsexual offenders. This research of looking at rapist, child molesters, and nonsexual offenders found that rapists had suggestively higher levels of antisocial personality traits than child molesters but no difference in narcissistic traits. Nonsexual offenders also recorded higher on the antisocial scale than child molesters but not higher than rapist. (Medscape Log In) Some criminals do not have the ability to get rid of this mental problem, some criminals got over the disorder, but most of the time it takes something to trigger the though and disorder to come back. This personality problem could take years to correct. Anti-personality disorders among criminals effect towns, citizens and families.

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