Moretti Giulia, Flutti Emma, Colanino Miriana, Ferlito Danila, Amoresano Livio, Travaini Guido
Faculty of Medicine, University of Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano, Italy.
Med Sci Law. 2024 Jan;64(1):41-51. doi: 10.1177/00258024231187186. Epub 2023 Jul 24.
Psychopathy has been empirically associated with various forms of antisocial behavior including sexual assault. In fact, the lack of empathy characterizing psychopathic offenders may facilitate the perpetration of more extreme violence. This systematic review aims to explore the relationship between psychopathy traits in male adult sex offenders and the increase in recidivism risk for any type of reoffence, with a special focus on sexual recidivism. From an initial sample of 757 articles related to the topic, only 14 were selected from the current literature at the end of the inclusion process. Each of these assessed the relation between psychopathy traits (measured by PCL-R) and recidivism risk in male sex offenders (age > 18), providing an effect size (quantitative findings). The results of their analysis agree with the currently available literature: the presence of psychopathic traits in sex offenders would seem to correlate with an increased risk of recidivism of general but non-sexual. Furthermore, almost half of the included works highlighted a positive relationship between psychopathy and violent reoffences. However, the limited availability of studies and the unevenness in their results indicate the need to expand future research in this direction.
实证研究表明，精神病态与包括性侵犯在内的各种反社会行为有关。事实上，精神病态罪犯缺乏同理心的特点可能会助长更极端暴力行为的实施。本系统综述旨在探讨成年男性性犯罪者的精神病态特征与任何类型再犯罪的累犯风险增加之间的关系，特别关注性累犯。在最初的757篇与该主题相关的文章样本中，纳入过程结束时，仅从当前文献中选出了14篇。这些文章均评估了精神病态特征（通过PCL-R测量）与成年男性性犯罪者（年龄>18岁）的累犯风险之间的关系，并提供了效应量（定量研究结果）。他们的分析结果与现有文献一致：性犯罪者中存在精神病态特征似乎与一般累犯风险增加相关，但与性累犯无关。此外，几乎一半的纳入研究强调了精神病态与暴力再犯罪之间的正相关关系。然而，研究数量有限且结果参差不齐，这表明有必要在这一方向上扩大未来的研究。
