Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

An Evaluation of a Maximum Security Therapeutic Community for Psychopaths and Other Mentally Disordered Offenders

An Evaluation of a Maximum Security Therapeutic Community for Psychopaths and Other Mentally... Psychopaths present serious problems for the criminal justice system because they are responsible for many serious crimes and appear to be very resistant to treatment. The present study was a retrospective evaluation of the efficacy of a maximum security therapeutic community program in reducing recidivism among mentally disordered offenders, some of whom were psychopaths. The study employed a matched group, quasiexperimental design. The results showed that, compared to no program (in most cases prison), treatment was associated with lower recidivism (especially violent recidivism) for nonpsychopaths and higher violent recidivism for psychopaths. The clinical and research utility of Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist was strongly supported. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Law and Human Behavior American Psychological Association

An Evaluation of a Maximum Security Therapeutic Community for Psychopaths and Other Mentally Disordered Offenders

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-psychological-association/an-evaluation-of-a-maximum-security-therapeutic-community-for-TBSQ1jL0vl

References (59)

Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 American Psychological Association
ISSN
0147-7307
eISSN
1573-661X
DOI
10.1007/BF02352266
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Psychopaths present serious problems for the criminal justice system because they are responsible for many serious crimes and appear to be very resistant to treatment. The present study was a retrospective evaluation of the efficacy of a maximum security therapeutic community program in reducing recidivism among mentally disordered offenders, some of whom were psychopaths. The study employed a matched group, quasiexperimental design. The results showed that, compared to no program (in most cases prison), treatment was associated with lower recidivism (especially violent recidivism) for nonpsychopaths and higher violent recidivism for psychopaths. The clinical and research utility of Hare’s Psychopathy Checklist was strongly supported.

Journal

Law and Human BehaviorAmerican Psychological Association

Published: Aug 1, 1992

There are no references for this article.