执行功能障碍在预测暴力的频率和严重程度中的作用。
Role of executive dysfunction in predicting frequency and severity of violence.
机构信息
Department of Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
出版信息
Aggress Behav. 2010 Sep-Oct;36(5):338-49. doi: 10.1002/ab.20353.
The adverse consequences of violence on society are tremendous. The proportion of offenders incarcerated for violent offenses is large, and the cost of keeping these offenders incarcerated is startling. Understanding and treating the causal underpinnings of violent crime is of utmost importance for individuals and society as a whole. Several factors have been identified as potential contributors to violent crime, including cognitive deficits in executive functioning [Hoaken et al., 2007]. To investigate this further, 77 offenders from Fenbrook Institution, a federal facility, were tested on a battery of executive functioning measures. Offenders were found to have broad and pervasive dysfunction in their executive abilities. In addition, specific scores from the battery were found using regression techniques, to predict the frequency and severity of past violent offending but not nonviolent offending. This speaks of the possibility of a new type of correctional rehabilitation program, one that focuses on the rehabilitation of basic executive functions.
暴力行为对社会造成的不良后果是巨大的。因暴力犯罪而被监禁的罪犯比例很大,监禁这些罪犯的成本惊人。了解和治疗暴力犯罪的根本原因对个人和整个社会来说都是至关重要的。一些因素已被确定为暴力犯罪的潜在原因,包括执行功能方面的认知缺陷[Hoaken 等人,2007]。为了进一步研究这一点,对 Fenbrook 机构的 77 名罪犯进行了一系列执行功能测试。研究发现,罪犯的执行能力存在广泛而普遍的障碍。此外,还使用回归技术从测试结果中找到了具体分数,可以预测过去暴力犯罪的频率和严重程度,但不能预测非暴力犯罪的频率和严重程度。这表明有可能开发出一种新的矫正康复项目,该项目专注于基本执行功能的康复。