Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- 1.1 Action system applied to forensic topics
- 1.2 Child and adolescent offending
- 1.3 Developmental perspectives on offending
- 1.4 The evolutionary psychology perspective
- 1.5 Eyewitness memory
- 1.6 Facet meta-theory
- 1.7 Head injury and offending
- 1.8 Investigative decision making
- 1.9 Investigative psychology
- 1.10 Personality theories and offending
- 1.11 Pragmatic psychology
- 1.12 Sexual offenders
- 1.13 Social psychological theories applied to forensic psychology topics
- 1.14 Theories of change
- 1.15 Therapeutic jurisprudence
- 1.16 Violent offending
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
1.10 - Personality theories and offending
from Part I - Psychological underpinnings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- 1.1 Action system applied to forensic topics
- 1.2 Child and adolescent offending
- 1.3 Developmental perspectives on offending
- 1.4 The evolutionary psychology perspective
- 1.5 Eyewitness memory
- 1.6 Facet meta-theory
- 1.7 Head injury and offending
- 1.8 Investigative decision making
- 1.9 Investigative psychology
- 1.10 Personality theories and offending
- 1.11 Pragmatic psychology
- 1.12 Sexual offenders
- 1.13 Social psychological theories applied to forensic psychology topics
- 1.14 Theories of change
- 1.15 Therapeutic jurisprudence
- 1.16 Violent offending
- Part II Assessments
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
Some clinical syndromes of personality seem relatively unambiguous, and can be reliably identified. DSM-IV personality disorders provide quite distinctive personality 'types', particularly in cluster B 'dramatic' personality disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder or Antisocial Personality Disorder, both of which are more common to offenders. Another personality model deriving from the clinical-descriptive condition is that of psychopathy. Empirical, trait-driven structural models of personality provide broad dimensions of personality without filling in the idiosyncratic details of the self created by experience, choice and chance, but nevertheless seem to be able to predict offending. Meta-analysis finds structural models like Hans Eysenck's Psychoticism, Extroversion and Neuroticism (PEN) or Costa and McCrae's Five-Factor Model (FFM), Tellegen's three-factor model and Cloninger's seven-factor model, all have particular dimensions associated with antisocial acts. Structural trait theories of personality are highly empirical, and thus are more testable than individually focused theories.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 86 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010