Personality disorders and violence : Current Opinion in Psychiatry Personality disorders
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Although a consensus exists among mental health professionals that certain personality
disorders are associated with an increased propensity for violence, uncertainties regarding …

Background Psychopathy is a specific syndrome that predicts future violent and aggressive
behavior in adults. Studies in youth and adults have demonstrated a strong association …

There is currently limited research on the potential mechanisms underlying the development
of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). One such mechanism, distress tolerance (defined …

This report, prepared by scholars and human rights advocates who are members of the
Working Group on Violence against Women with Disabilities, focuses on the prevalence and …

This study explores the performance of 132 female maximum-security inmates on the
Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and the HCR-20 (Historical, Clinical, and Risk …

Over the past decade, research conducted in the United States, Canada, England, Australia,
and Ireland has begun to focus on the female prison population and the psychiatric and …

BackgroundFemale prisoners are 20 times more likely to die by suicide than women of the
same age in the general population. However, risk factors and indicators of vulnerability for …

Background The over‐representation of female prisoners with borderline personality
disorder (BPD) is an area of concern for HM Prison Service. Pilot programmes of Dialectical …

Borderline personality disorder is characteristically associated with a broad variety of
psychiatric symptoms and aberrant behaviors. In this edition of The Interface, we discuss the …