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Abstract
Many of the people who commit violent offences suffer from what is known in the psychiatric world as ‘personality disorders’. These are defined according to International Classification of Diseases or ICD-10 (WHO, 1994) as a variety of conditions and behaviour patterns of clinical significance that tend to be persistent, and appear to be the expression of the individual's lifestyle and mode of relating to him or herself and others. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition, 1994), personality disorders are relatively enduring and pervasively maladaptive patterns of experiencing, coping and relating.