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1.5 - Personality

from Part I - Psychological Underpinnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2021

By
Sean Hammond  and
Vincent Egan
Edited by
Jennifer M. Brown  and
Miranda A. H. Horvath
Jennifer M. Brown
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Miranda A. H. Horvath
Affiliation:
University of Suffolk
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Summary

In conjunction with situational and circumstantial factors, personality is a common influence contributing to the tipping point at which an offence occurs. People without these traits in similar circumstances are better able to eschew risky situations. The ultimate cause of ostensibly antagonistic traits is in evolved behavioural mechanisms which continue to be useful in harsher socioecological niches. Antagonistic traits often function alongside more positive co-operative and empathic traits, both having contributed to human survival over millennia. A huge body of psychometric and multivariate work with offenders involving large samples and longitudinal samples indicates five-factor, HEXACO, Dark Triad and other trait description schemes corroborate one-another regarding the key trait influences on offending. These models map onto DSM and ICD-10 personality disorder models, suggesting personality disorders have a foundation in trait dispositions. Work is needed to identify better behavioural measures of these dispositions, and how they integrate into cognitive and desistance processes.

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PersonalityPersonality TraitsPersonality DisorderOffendersOffending
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The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 88 - 108
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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