Section of Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Policlinico Universitario, p.za G. Cesare, 70124 Bari, Italy.
Forensic Psychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1438 South Grand Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63104, USA.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2020 Jan-Feb;68:101455. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.101455. Epub 2019 Nov 16.
Understudied is psychopathy in females, particularly socially dangerous NGRI females, where the construct could be of forensic, clinical and criminologic significance. Italy's recent transformation of its mental health system created the context for studying such a population on a national level. Throughout the twentieth century until their closure in 2015, offenders found to be not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) and socially dangerous were placed in one of the the six high security hospitals in Italy (OPGs). Only one hospital, the Castiglione delle Stiviere maximum security hospital (OPG) in North Italy, treated female offenders, who came from all parts of Italy. The authors studied 66 of all 86 women in Castiglione delle Stiviere OPG. The aims of this study were to identify the prevalence of psychopathy in NGRI female offenders and eventually to identify any phenotypic gender-specific features of psychopathy. The SCID I and II interviews and other tests (MMPI-2, MCMI-III, R-Bans) were administered to all the women. Clinical historical information was obtained. Finally for all women who consented to participate in the study, the researchers administered the PCL-R version validated for the Italian population. The final sample consisted of 66 women, who were deemed NGRI and socially dangerous. Here the authors present the final results as well as limitations of the research.
目前对女性精神病态的研究还不够充分，尤其是在具有社会危害性的、被判定无刑事责任能力的女性群体中，该研究对于法医学、临床医学和犯罪学都具有重要意义。意大利最近对其精神卫生系统进行了改革，为在全国范围内研究此类人群创造了条件。在 20 世纪直至 2015 年关闭之前，被判定因精神错乱而无罪（NGRI）和具有社会危害性的罪犯被安置在意大利六所高度安全的医院之一（OPG）。在意大利北部的卡斯特利奥内·迪·斯提维耶雷最高安全医院（OPG），只有一家医院收治女性罪犯，她们来自意大利各地。作者研究了卡斯特利奥内·迪·斯提维耶雷 OPG 中所有 86 名女性罪犯中的 66 名。本研究的目的是确定 NGRI 女性罪犯中精神病态的流行程度，并最终确定精神病态是否存在任何表型性别特异性特征。所有女性都接受了 SCID I 和 II 访谈以及其他测试（MMPI-2、MCMI-III、R-Bans）。研究人员还获取了临床历史信息。最后，对于所有同意参与研究的女性，研究人员都对其进行了 PCL-R 测试，该测试已在意大利人群中得到验证。最终的样本由 66 名被判定 NGRI 和具有社会危害性的女性组成。作者在此呈现了最终的研究结果以及研究的局限性。
