Abstract

SALINAS ATUESTA, Karen Viviana  and  SALAMANCA CAMARGO, Yenny. Correlation between Pathological Personality and Criminal Behavior in Prison Population. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp.131-142.  Epub Jan 01, 2020. ISSN 1794-9998.  https://doi.org/10.15332/22563067.5545.

The aim of this non-experimental, descriptive-correlational study was to determine the relation between patterns of pathological personality and criminal behavior among 127 male participants aged between 20 and 59 and incarcerated in a Colombian correctional facility by applying the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (mcmi-iii) in its Spanish version and reviwing the typology of the criminal conduct stipulated in the Colombian Criminal Code. The results from the etacorrelation coefficient indicated a significant correlation between the compulsive (.67), self-destructive (.66), and avoidant (.64) pathological patterns with criminal behavior. Additionally, it was determined that 44.6% fell under more than two scales; narcissistic and compulsive clinical patterns, severe pathology of paranoid personality, bipolar clinical syndrome, and severe clinical syndrome of delusional disorder were identified as the most prevalent and their relation was discussed according to the type of crime.

Keywords : personality disorders; criminal psychology; prisons.

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