Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
J Pers Disord. 2010 Oct;24(5):581-609. doi: 10.1521/pedi.2010.24.5.581.
Childhood abuse is relatively prevalent among women and is an important risk factor for both criminal behavior and suicide-related behavior (SRB). Based on a sample of 266 female offenders, we address one theoretical and one practical issue. First, from a theoretical perspective, we assess whether internalizing (depression and anxiety) and externalizing (substance abuse and antisocial behavior) psychopathology mediate the relation between abuse on the one hand, and SRB or criminal behavior, on the other. Results indicate that externalizing problems mediate the relation between childhood abuse and both lifetime SRB (fully) and lifetime criminality (partially). Second, at a practical level, results indicate that a subscale of the Revised Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R; Hare, 1991) that assesses lifetime criminal behavior adds incremental utility to postdicting SRB, beyond the variance accounted for by self-report measures of abuse and externalizing problems. However, none of the measures-including the PCL-R-predicted future recidivism.
童年期虐待在女性中较为普遍，是犯罪行为和与自杀相关行为（SRB）的重要风险因素。基于 266 名女性罪犯的样本，我们解决了一个理论问题和一个实际问题。首先，从理论角度来看，我们评估了内化（抑郁和焦虑）和外化（药物滥用和反社会行为）心理病理学是否在虐待与 SRB 或犯罪行为之间起中介作用。结果表明，外化问题在童年期虐待与终生 SRB（完全）和终生犯罪（部分）之间起中介作用。其次，在实际层面上，结果表明，评估生活犯罪行为的修订版心理变态检查表（PCL-R； Hare，1991）的一个分量表，在预测 SRB 方面，除了滥用和外化问题的自我报告测量所解释的方差之外，还具有额外的效用。然而，没有任何一种措施——包括 PCL-R——能够预测未来的累犯。
