Recidivant criminal behaviour and executive dysfunction

Recurrent criminal behavior and executive dysfunction.

OBJECTIVE To experimentally test the hypothesis that people who repeatedly participate in forms of non-violent crime exhibit an executive deficit detected in tests of high ecological validity, having changes in prefrontal functioning as neurophysiologic basis. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS A batteiy to assess executive dysfunction was administered--the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Sy...

Recurrent Criminal Behavior and Executive Dysfunction

Asperger syndrome and criminal behaviour†

Autism-spectrum disorders are a group of biologically based behavioural syndromes of childhood onset that are characterised by qualitative impairments in reciprocal social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, together with a restricted and repetitive range of behaviours, interests and activities – the so-called ‘triad of impairments’ (Wing 1981). Among individuals with ‘high-fun...

Personality Disorder and Criminal Behaviour

Purpose of review: There is a well established association between personality disorder and offending but the nature of the relationship is less well understood. We reviewed the recent literature on personality disorder and offending, picking out studies that examined the relationship between the two. Recent findings: Cluster A, B and C personality disorders are each associated with different t...

Psychiatry of Criminal Behaviour

Certain acts which are regarded as undesirable are defined by the particular society as crimes. Criminal behaviour, thus is a violation of the criminal laws of that particular society. Apart from the fact that it is a criminal act, it invariably is also a psychiatric problem in the sense that it may be (a) a symptom of an underlying psychopathological state, (b) a manifestation of a character d...