Antisocial personality disorder as a predictor of criminal behaviour in a longitudinal study of a cohort of abusers of several classes of drugs: Relation to type of substance and type of crime
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Antisocial personality disorder as a predictor of criminal behaviour in a longitudinal study of a cohort of abusers of several classes of drugs : Relation to type of substance and type of crime. / Fridell, Mats; Hesse, Morten; Jæger, Mads Meier; Kühlhorn, Eckart.
I: Addictive Behaviors, Bind 33, Nr. 6, 01.06.2008, s. 799-811.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Antisocial personality disorder as a predictor of criminal behaviour in a longitudinal study of a cohort of abusers of several classes of drugs
T2 - Relation to type of substance and type of crime
AU - Fridell, Mats
AU - Hesse, Morten
AU - Jæger, Mads Meier
AU - Kühlhorn, Eckart
PY - 2008/6/1
Y1 - 2008/6/1
N2 - Mixed findings have been made with regard to the long-term predictive validity of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) on criminal behaviour in samples of substance abusers. A longitudinal record-linkage study of a cohort of 1052 drug abusers admitted 1977-1995 was undertaken. Subjects were recruited from a detoxification and short-term rehabilitation unit in Lund, Sweden, and followed through criminal justice registers from their first treatment episode to death or to the year 2004. In a ML multinomial random effects regression, subjects diagnosed with antisocial personality disorders were 2.16 times more likely to be charged with theft only (p < 0.001), and 2.44 times more likely to be charged committing multiple types of crime during an observation year (p < 0.001). The findings of the current study support the predictive validity of the DSM-III-R diagnosis of ASPD. ASPD should be taken seriously in drug abusers, and be targeted in treatment to prevent crime in society.
AB - Mixed findings have been made with regard to the long-term predictive validity of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) on criminal behaviour in samples of substance abusers. A longitudinal record-linkage study of a cohort of 1052 drug abusers admitted 1977-1995 was undertaken. Subjects were recruited from a detoxification and short-term rehabilitation unit in Lund, Sweden, and followed through criminal justice registers from their first treatment episode to death or to the year 2004. In a ML multinomial random effects regression, subjects diagnosed with antisocial personality disorders were 2.16 times more likely to be charged with theft only (p < 0.001), and 2.44 times more likely to be charged committing multiple types of crime during an observation year (p < 0.001). The findings of the current study support the predictive validity of the DSM-III-R diagnosis of ASPD. ASPD should be taken seriously in drug abusers, and be targeted in treatment to prevent crime in society.
KW - Amphetamine
KW - Antisocial personality
KW - Crime
KW - Heroin
KW - Prospective
KW - Substance abuse
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=41249096990&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.01.001
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 18258375
AN - SCOPUS:41249096990
VL - 33
SP - 799
EP - 811
JO - Addictive Behaviors
JF - Addictive Behaviors
SN - 0306-4603
IS - 6
ER -
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