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      Criminal characteristics and psychopathy in women in prison Translated title: Características delictivas y psicopatía en mujeres em prisión

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          Abstract

          Objectives:

          To compare the factors and facets of psychopathy based on criminal characteristics in a sample of women in prison.

          Material and method:

          Descriptive, comparative, cross-sectional study composed of a sample of 41 women incarcerated in the Ambato prison in Ecuador. In an individual session, the Hare Psychopathy Scale Revised was applied.

          Results:

          Recidivist women, with a juvenile criminal history and who are admitted to the maximum-security ward, have a higher score in the affective facet of the PCL-R. In addition, those women who are in the maximum-security pavilion have scored high in factor 2 (social deviance), mainly in the antisocial aspect.

          Discussion:

          This subgroup of women in prison is characterized by lack of remorse, emotional insensitivity, manipulation, inability to accept responsibility for their own actions, and superficial affection. Further expansion of the study of psychopathy in women is required.

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          Objetivos:

          Comparar los factores y facetas de la psicopatía en función de las características delictivas en una muestra de mujeres en prisión.

          Material y método:

          Estudio descriptivo, comparativo, de corte transversal, compuesto por una muestra de 41 mujeres en- carceladas en el centro penitenciario de Ambato en Ecuador. En una sesión individual, se aplicó la escala de evaluación de la psicopatía de Hare revisada (PCL-R).

          Resultados:

          Las mujeres reincidentes, con historial delictivo juvenil y que se encuentran ingresadas en el pabellón de seguridad máxima, presentan mayor puntuación en la faceta afectiva de la PCL-R. Además, aquellas mujeres que se encuentran en el pabe- llón de máxima seguridad han puntuado alto en el factor 2 (desviación social), principalmente en la faceta antisocial.

          Discusión:

          Este subgrupo de mujeres en prisión se caracteriza por presentar ausencia de remordimiento, insensibilidad afectiva, manipulación, incapacidad de aceptar la responsabilidad de las propias acciones y afecto superficial. Se requiere ampliar más el estudio de la psicopatía en mujeres.

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            Psychopathy and the DSM-IV criteria for antisocial personality disorder.

            The Axis II Work Group of the Task Force on DSM-IV has expressed concern that antisocial personality disorder (APD) criteria are too long and cumbersome and that they focus on antisocial behaviors rather than personality traits central to traditional conceptions of psychopathy and to international criteria. We describe an alternative to the approach taken in the rev. 3rd ed. of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III-R; American Psychiatric Association, 1987), namely, the revised Psychopathy Checklist. We also discuss the multisite APD field trials designed to evaluate and compare four criteria sets: the DSM-III-R criteria, a shortened list of these criteria, the criteria for dyssocial personality disorder from the 10th ed. of the International Classification of Diseases (World Health Organization, 1990), and a 10-item criteria set for psychopathic personality disorder derived from the revised Psychopathy Checklist.
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              Severe mental illness in 33,588 prisoners worldwide: systematic review and meta-regression analysis.

              High levels of psychiatric morbidity in prisoners have been documented in many countries, but it is not known whether rates of mental illness have been increasing over time or whether the prevalence differs between low-middle-income countries compared with high-income ones. To systematically review prevalence studies for psychotic illness and major depression in prisoners, provide summary estimates and investigate sources of heterogeneity between studies using meta-regression. Studies from 1966 to 2010 were identified using ten bibliographic indexes and reference lists. Inclusion criteria were unselected prison samples and that clinical examination or semi-structured instruments were used to make DSM or ICD diagnoses of the relevant disorders. We identified 109 samples including 33 588 prisoners in 24 countries. Data were meta-analysed using random-effects models, and we found a pooled prevalence of psychosis of 3.6% (95% CI 3.1-4.2) in male prisoners and 3.9% (95% CI 2.7-5.0) in female prisoners. There were high levels of heterogeneity, some of which was explained by studies in low-middle-income countries reporting higher prevalences of psychosis (5.5%, 95% CI 4.2-6.8; P = 0.035 on meta-regression). The pooled prevalence of major depression was 10.2% (95% CI 8.8-11.7) in male prisoners and 14.1% (95% CI 10.2-18.1) in female prisoners. The prevalence of these disorders did not appear to be increasing over time, apart from depression in the USA (P = 0.008). High levels of psychiatric morbidity are consistently reported in prisoners from many countries over four decades. Further research is needed to confirm whether higher rates of mental illness are found in low- and middle-income nations, and examine trends over time within nations with large prison populations.
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                Journal
                Rev Esp Sanid Penit
                Rev Esp Sanid Penit
                sanipe
                Revista Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria
                Sociedad Española de Sanidad Penitenciaria
                1575-0620
                2013-6463
                Jan-Apr 2023
                31 March 2023
                : 25
                : 1
                : 8-15
                Affiliations
                [1 ] original Autonomous University of Coahuila. Saltillo-Coahuila. México. normalizedUniversidad Autónoma de Coahuila orgnameAutonomous University of Coahuila Saltillo-Coahuila, Mexico
                [2 ] original Catholic Pontifical University of Ecuador. Ambato. Ecuador. normalizedPontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador orgnameCatholic Pontifical University of Ecuador Ambato, Ecuador
                [3 ] original Indo-American Technological University. Ambato. Ecuador. orgnameIndo-American Technological University Ambato, Ecuador
                Author notes
                [Correspondence ] Verónica Molina Coloma Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Saltillo Coahuila. México. E-mail: v_molina@ 123456uadec.edu.mx
                Article
                10.18176/resp.00061
                10236911
                debc6feb-f5cb-422a-8150-0fa8995b5657

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

                History
                : 11 March 2022
                : 12 July 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 5, Equations: 0, References: 46, Pages: 08
                Categories
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                personality disorders,women,prisons,crime,trastornos de la personalidad,mujeres,prisiones,crimen

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