391
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Depression and personality disorders among incarcerated offenders convicted of impulsive versus premeditated homicide

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon & ORCID Icon
Pages 502-520 | Received 26 Mar 2023, Accepted 19 Sep 2023, Published online: 27 Sep 2023

References

  • American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed). American Psychiatric Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596
  • Arbour, W., Marchand, S., & Lacroix, G. (2023, May 10). Prison Rehabilitation programs and recidivism: Evidence from variations in availability. Melbourne Institute Working Paper, 7, wp2023n07. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4444790
  • Azevedo, J., Vieira-Coelho, M., Castelo-Branco, M., Coelho, R., Figueiredo-Braga, M., & Dang, Y.-H. (2020). Impulsive and premeditated aggression in male offenders with antisocial personality disorder. PloS One, 15(3), e0229876. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229876
  • Balcioglu, Y. H., Kirlioglu Balcioglu, S. S., Oncu, F., & Turkcan, A. (2023). Profiling homicides based on impulsive or proactive natures in male Schizophrenia patients. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 51(2), 215–226. https://doi.org/10.29158/JAAPL.220064-22
  • Beck, A. J., & Maruschak, L. M. (2001). Mental health treatment in state prisons, (NCJ Number 188215). Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  • Black, D. W., Gunter, T., Allen, J., Blum, N., Arndt, S., Wenman, G., & Sieleni, B. (2007). Borderline personality disorder in male and female offenders newly committed to prison. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 48(5), 400–405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.04.006
  • Bourget, D., Gagné, P., & Wood, S. F. (2017). Dissociation: Defining the concept in criminal Forensic Psychiatry. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 45(2), 147–160.
  • Branney, P., & White, A. (2008). Big boys don’t cry: Depression and men. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 14(4), 256–262. https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.106.003467
  • Brownhill, S., Wilhelm, K., Barclay, L., & Schmied, V. (2005). ‘Big build’: Hidden depression in men. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39(10), 921–931. https://doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1614.2005.01665.x
  • Brud, P. P., & Cieciuch, J. (2023). Borderline personality disorder and its facets in the context of personality metatraits and pathological traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 202, 111958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111958
  • Call, J. B., & Shafer, K. (2018). Gendered manifestations of depression and help seeking among men. American Journal of Men’s Health, 12(1), 41–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/155798831562399
  • Catanesi, R., Carabellese, F., Troccoli, G., Candelli, C., Grattagliano, I., Solarino, B., & Fortunato, F. (2011). Psychopathology and weapon choice: A study of 103 perpetrators of homicide or attempted homicide. Forensic Science International, 209(1–3), 149–153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.01.019
  • Cheng, P., & Jaffe, P. (2021). Examining depression among perpetrators of intimate partner homicide. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(19–20), 9277–9298. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519867151
  • Cornell, D. G., Warren, J., Hawk, G., Stafford, E., Oram, G., & Pine, D. (1996). Psychopathy in instrumental and reactive violent offenders. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64(4), 783–790. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.64.4.783
  • Cruz, A. R., de Castro-Rodrigues, A., & Barbosa, F. (2020). Executive dysfunction, violence and aggression. Aggression and Violent Behavior 51, 101380. Article 101380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2020.101380
  • Decker, S. H. (1993). Exploring victim-offender relationships in homicide: The role of individual and event characteristics. Justice Quarterly, 10(4), 585–612. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418829300092031
  • Dixon, L. (2000). Assertive community treatment: Twenty-five years of gold. PS, 51(6), 759–765. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.51.6.759
  • Douglas, K. S., Guy, L. S., Edens, J. F., Boer, D. P., & Hamilton, J. (2007). The personality assessment inventory as a proxy for the psychopathy checklist revised: Testing the incremental validity and cross-sample robustness of the Antisocial features scale. Assessment, 14(3), 255–269. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191107302138
  • Eronen, M., Hakola, P., & Tiihonen, J. (1996). Mental disorders and homicidal behavior in Finland. Archives of General Psychiatry, 53(6), 497–501. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1996.01830060039005
  • Fakhrzadegan, S., Gholami-Doon, H., Shamloo, B., & Shokouhi-Moqhaddam, S. (2017). The relationship between personality disorders and the type of Crime committed and substance used among prisoners. Addiction and Health, 9(2), 64–71.
  • Fazel, S., Hayes, A. J., Bartellas, K., Clerici, M., & Trestman, R. (2016). Mental health of prisoners: Prevalence, adverse outcomes, and interventions. The Lancet Psychiatry, 3(9), 871–881. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30142-0
  • Fazel, S., Wolf, A., Chang, Z., Larsson, H., Goodwin, G. M., & Lichtenstein, P. (2015). Depression and violence: A Swedish population study. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(3), 224–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(14)00128-X
  • Felthous, A. R. (2008). Schizophrenia and impulsive aggression: A heuristic inquiry with forensic and clinical implications. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 26(6), 735–758. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.846
  • Fioritti, A., Ferriani, E., Rucci, P., & Melega, V. (2006). Characteristics of homicide perpetrators among Italian forensic hospital inmates. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 29(3), 212–219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2005.10.002
  • First, M. B., Williams, J. B. W., Karg, R. S., & Spitzer, R. L. (2015). Structured Clinical interview for DSM-5: Research version. American Psychiatric Association.
  • Garofalo, C., Velotti, P., & Zavattini, G. C. (2018). Emotion regulation and aggression: The incremental contribution of alexithymia, impulsivity, and emotion dysregulation facets. Psychology of Violence, 8(4), 470–483. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000141
  • Gasse, A., Kim, W. S., & Gagnon, J. (2020). Association between depression and hostile attribution bias in hostile and non-hostile individuals: An ERP study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 276, 1077–1083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.025
  • Gunderson, J. G., Herpertz, S. C., Skodol, A. E., Torgersen, S., & Zanarini, M. C. (2018). Borderline personality disorder. Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 4(1), 18029. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrdp.2018.29
  • Hachtel, H., Nixon, M., Bennett, D., Mullen, P., & Ogloff, J. (2021). Motives, offending behavior, and gender differences in murder perpetrators with or without psychosis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(7–8), 3168–3190. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518774304
  • Holmes, E. A., Brown, R. J., Mansell, W., Fearon, R. P., Hunter, E. C., Frasquilho, F., & Oakley, D. A. (2005). Are there two qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation? A review and some clinical implications. Clinical Psychology Review, 25(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2004.08.006
  • Holzer, K. J., Vaughn, M. G., Loux, T. M., Mancini, M. A., Fearn, N. E., & Wallace, C. L. (2022). Prevalence and correlates of antisocial personality disorder in older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 26(1), 169–178. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2020.1839867
  • Honkalampi, K., Hintikka, J., Laukkanen, E., Lehtonen, J., & Viinamäki, H. (2001). Alexithymia and depression: A prospective study of patients with major depressive disorder. Psychosomatics, 42(3), 229–234. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psy.42.3.229
  • Iqbal, N., & Dar, K. A. (2015). Negative affectivity, depression, and anxiety: Does rumination mediate the links? Journal of Affective Disorders, 181, 18–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2015.04.002
  • James, J., Higgs, T., & Langevin, S. (2020). Reactive and proactive aggression in sexual homicide offenders. Journal of Criminal Justice, 71, 101728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.10172
  • Jamison, T. E. (2005). The Homicidal Narcissist. Doctoral dissertation., University of Tennessee. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/2087
  • Jin, M., Wang, Z., Zhou, Y., & Zhong, J. (2023). Exploring the impact of childhood maltreatment and BPD on impulsivity in crimes of passion. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1159678. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1159678
  • Katz, M. M., Wetzler, S., Cloitre, M., Swann, A., Secunda, S., Mendels, J., & Robins, E. (1993). Expressive characteristics of anxiety in depressed men and women. Journal of Affective Disorders, 28(4), 267–277. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-0327(93)90062-o
  • Kim, Y. J., Park, E. H., Jon, D. I., Jung, M. H., & Hong, N. (2017). Does emotional intelligence fluctuate within Clinical depressive condition? Psychiatry Investigation, 14(5), 532–538. https://doi.org/10.4306/pi.2017.14.5.532
  • Krause-Utz, A., Erol, E., Brousianou, A. V., Cackowski, S., Paret, C., Ende, G., & Elzinga, B. (2019). Self-reported impulsivity in women with borderline personality disorder: The role of childhood maltreatment severity and emotion regulation difficulties. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 6(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-019-0101-8
  • Kraus, G., & Reynolds, D. J. (2001). The “A-B-C’s” of the cluster B’s: Identifying, understanding, and treating cluster B personality disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 21(3), 345–373. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-7358(99)00052-5
  • Kroenke, K., Spitzer, R. L., & Williams, J. B. (2001). The PHQ-9: Validity of a brief depression severity measure. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16(9), 606–613. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016009606.x
  • Krueger, R., Derringer, J., Markon, K., Watson, D., & Skodol, A. (2013). The personality inventory for DSM-5-brief form (PID-5-BF)-adult. American Psychiatric Association.
  • Krueger, R. F., & Markon, K. E. (2014). The role of the DSM-5 personality trait Model in moving toward a quantitative and empirically based approach to classifying personality and psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 10(1), 477–501. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032813-153732
  • Levy, K. N., Beeney, J. E., Wasserman, R. H., & Clarkin, J. F. (2010). Conflict begets conflict: Executive control, mental state vacillations, and the therapeutic alliance in treatment of borderline personality disorder. Psychotherapy Research: Journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, 20(4), 413–422. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503301003636696
  • Longden, E., Branitsky, A., Moskowitz, A., Berry, K., Bucci, S., & Varese, F. (2020). The relationship between dissociation and symptoms of psychosis: A meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46(5), 1104–1113. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa037. Advance online publication.
  • Mao, T., Pan, W., Zhu, Y., Yang, J., Dong, Q., & Zhou, G. (2018). Self-control mediates the relationship between personality trait and impulsivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 129, 70–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.03.013
  • Martin, L. A., Neighbors, H. W., & Griffith, D. M. (2013). The experience of symptoms of depression in men vs women: Analysis of the National comorbidity survey replication. JAMA Psychiatry, 70(10), 1100–1106. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.1985
  • McCallion, H., & Farrimond, P. (2018). An independent review of the independent investigations for mental health homicides in England (published and unpublished) from 2013 to the present day. https://www.england.nhs.uk/south-east/publications/ind-invest-reports/an-independent-review-of-the-independent-investigations-for-mental-health-homicides-in-england/
  • Meloy, J. R. (1997). Predatory violence during mass murder. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 42(2), 326–329. https://doi.org/10.1520/JFS14122J
  • Mitchell, H. G., Frayne, D., Wyatt, B., Goller, H., & McCord, D. M. (2020). Comparing the PHQ-9 to the Multidimensional Behavioral health Screen in predicting depression-related symptomatology in a primary medical care sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 102(2), 175–182. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2019.1693388
  • Moskowitz, A. K. (2004). Dissociative pathways to homicide: Clinical and Forensic implications. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 5(3), 5–32. https://doi.org/10.1300/J229v05n03_02
  • Murphy, R. J. (2023). Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder and neural correlates of trauma-related pathology: A critical Review. Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, 20(1–3), 53–59.
  • Pavez, F., Saura, E., & Marset, P. (in press). Subcultural representations of perpetrators and Victims of Crime and violence associated with mental disorders. Revista Colombiana de Psiquiatría. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcp.2022.07.007
  • Roberton, T., Daffern, M., & Bucks, R. S. (2015). Beyond anger control: Difficulty attending to emotions also predicts aggression in offenders. Psychology of Violence, 5(1), 74–83. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037214
  • Rowiński, T., Kowalska-Dąbrowska, M., Strus, W., Cieciuch, J., Czuma, I., Żechowski, C., Markon, K. E., & Krueger, R. F. (2019). Pomiar patologicznych cech osobowości według DSM-5: Polska adaptacja Inwentarza Osobowości PID-5. Część II – wyniki empiryczne. Psychiatria polska, 53(1), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/OnlineFirst/86478
  • Salk, R. H., Hyde, J. S., & Abramson, L. Y. (2017). Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: Meta-analyses of diagnoses and symptoms. Psychological Bulletin, 143(8), 783–822. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000102
  • Sher, L., Rice, T., & World Federation of Societies of Biological PsychiatryTask Force on Men’s Mental Health. (2015). Prevention of homicidal behaviour in men with psychiatric disorders. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry: The Official Journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry, 16(4), 212–229.
  • Shin, G. I., Goldstein, L. H., & Pick, S. (2019). Evidence for subjective emotional numbing following induced acute dissociation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 119, 103407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.05.004
  • Siever, L. J. (2008). Neurobiology of aggression and violence. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 165(4), 429–442. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.07111774
  • Stanford, M. S., Houston, R. J., & Baldridge, R. M. (2008). Comparison of impulsive and premeditated perpetrators of intimate partner violence. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 26(6), 709–722. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.808
  • Stringer, H. (2019). Improving mental health for inmates. Monitor on Psychology, 50(3). https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/03/mental-heath-inmates
  • Suzuki, T., Griffin, S. A., & Samuel, D. B. (2017). Capturing the DSM-5 Alternative personality Disorder Model traits in the five-Factor Model’s Nomological Net. Journal of Personality, 85(2), 220–231. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12235
  • Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. (2020). Homicide and Mental Illness Perpetrators’ Prior Contacts with Psychiatric Services (No. 2020-7). https://bra.se/bra-in-english/home/publications/archive/publications/2020-09-04-homicide-and-mental-illness.html
  • Talevska, V., & Stefanovski, B. (2011). Mental illness and homicide–prevention of recidivism. Acta Clinica Croatica, 50(4), 501–508.
  • Thimm, J. C., Jordan, S., & Bach, B. (2016). The personality inventory for DSM-5 short form (PID-5-SF): Psychometric properties and association with big five traits and pathological beliefs in a Norwegian population. BMC Psychology, 4(1), 61. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-016-0169-5
  • Tomaszewski, K., Zarychta, M., Bieńkowska, A., Chmurowicz, E., Nowak, W., & Skalska, A. (2011). Walidacja polskiej wersji jezykowej patient health questionnaire-9 w populacji hospitalizowanych osób starszych [validation of the patient health questionnaire-9 Polish version in the hospitalised elderly population]. Psychiatria Polska, 45(2), 223–233.
  • Town, J. M., Falkenström, F., Abbass, A., & Stride, C. (2022). The anger-depression mechanism in dynamic therapy: Experiencing previously avoided anger positively predicts reduction in depression via working alliance and insight. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 69(3), 326–336. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000581
  • Trestman, R. L., Ford, J., Zhang, W., & Wiesbrock, V. (2007). Current and lifetime psychiatric illness among inmates not identified as acutely mentally ill at intake in Connecticut’s jails. The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 35(4), 490–500.
  • Tweed, R. G., & Dutton, D. G. (1998). A comparison of impulsive and instrumental subgroups of batterers. Violence and Victims, 13(3), 217–230. https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.13.3.217
  • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC. (2019). Global Study on Homicide. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html
  • Velotti, P., Garofalo, C., Callea, A., Bucks, R. S., Roberton, T., & Daffern, M. (2017). Exploring anger among offenders: The role of emotion dysregulation and alexithymia. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 24(1), 128–138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2016.1164639
  • Winkler, D., Pjrek, E., & Kasper, S. (2005). Anger attacks in depression–evidence for a male depressive syndrome. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 74(5), 303–307. https://doi.org/10.1159/000086321
  • Yang, C., Wang, J., Shao, Y., Liu, M., & Geng, F. (2022). Antisocial and borderline personality traits and childhood trauma in male prisoners: Mediating effects of difficulties in emotional regulation. Child Abuse & Neglect, 132, 105822. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105822
  • Yoon, J. H., Kim, J. H., Choi, S. S., Lyu, M. K., Kwon, J. H., Jang, Y. I., & Park, G. T. (2012). Homicide and bipolar I disorder: A 22-year study. Forensic Science International, 217(1–3), 113–118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.10.037
  • Yoshimatsu, K., & Palmer, B. (2014). Depression in patients with borderline personality disorder. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 22(5), 266–273. https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0000000000000045

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.