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Psychology and Law
2022. Vol. 12, no. 2, 2–14
https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2022120201
ISSN: 2222-5196 (online)

Antisocial and Aggressive Personality Traits of Convicted Murderers

 
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Abstract

The work is aimed at finding the relationship between dispositional aggression and antiso-cial personality traits of convicted murderers. The study involved criminals who were con-victed of: 1) intentional unlawful taking of another person’s life, i.e. murder (“direct” mur-derers) and 2) illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors and analogues (“indirect” murderers). The average age was 39.3±10.8. 33.6% of them were first-time convicted criminals, and 66.4% had previous experience of imprisonment. The study used the “Dark Dozen” questionnaire aimed at measuring subclinical personality traits, two scales of PDT (Psychodiagnostic Test) and the aggressiveness questionnaire by A. Buss and M. Perry. As a result of the study, differences in the antisocial and aggressive personality traits of “direct” and “indirect” murderers were described, as well as the rela-tionship and mutual influence of the antisocial and aggressive personality traits of the crim-inals from these groups.

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Keywords: machiavellianism, psychopathy, narcissism, conscientiousness, disinhibition, physical ag-gression, verbal aggression, anger, hostility

Journal rubric: Penitentiary Psychology and Penal Practice

OpenAlex citations: 1

OpenAlex trends: Personality Traits and Psychology, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

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Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of psychopathy and its association with criminal behavior, including risk assessment, mental disorders, violent recidivism, neurobiological basis, emotion recognition deficits, and treatment effectiveness. It also explores the impact of callous-unemotional traits in youth offenders and the development of psychopathy from adolescence to adulthood.

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Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2022120201

Received 14.04.2022

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For citation: Fourmanov, I.A., Bindasova, O. (2022). Antisocial and Aggressive Personality Traits of Convicted Murderers. Psychology and Law, 12(2), 2–14. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2022120201

© Fourmanov I.A., Bindasova O., 2022

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Igor A. Fourmanov, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Head of the Chair of Social and Organizational Psychology, Belorussian State University (BSU), Minsk, Belarus, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1931-9751, e-mail: fourmigor@gmail.com

Olga Bindasova, Postgraduate student, Department of Psychology and Correctional Work, Mogilev State University named after A.A. Kuleshov (Kuleshov MSU), Mogilev, Belarus, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2120-7751, e-mail: bindasova.olga@bk.ru

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