Psychopathic personality traits as a subject of forensic psychiatric assessment
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Rzaev TZ, Geraybeli GCh. [Psychopathic personality traits as a subject of forensic psychiatric assessment]. Rossiiskii psikhiatricheskii zhurnal [Russian Journal of Psychiatry]. 2024;(5):12-17. Russian
In this descriptive retrospective study, in order to analyse the clinical, psychopathological, socio-demographic and criminological characteristics of persons with psychopathic personality traits, the characteristics of 1847 accused who underwent forensic psychiatric examination in the Republic of Azerbaijan in the period 2001-2020 (in the course of 20 years) were analysed, according to the results of which they were diagnosed with accentuated character traits. As a result of the study, it was found that in the forensic psychiatric assessment of repeated acts in persons with psychopathic personality traits, in a total of 23.3% of cases, such characteristics are generally amenable to complete correction. At the same time, this group of people as a whole develops various mental pathologies in 40% of cases, in 27.8% of cases – personality and behavioral disorders associated with newly emerging pathologies in adulthood, and in 3.3% of cases even endogenous pathologies such as schizophrenia and schizotypal disorders may occur.
Keywords personality accentuation; psychopathic personality traits; criminal behaviour; forensic assessment
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