Maladaptive personality domains and crime related characteristics among convicts incarcerated in central jails of Pakistan
Journal of Criminal Psychology
ISSN: 2009-3829
Article publication date: 13 February 2023
Issue publication date: 27 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to differentiate maladaptive personality domains through crime-related characteristics among convicts incarcerated in central jails of Punjab (CJP). In total, 552 respondents were taken from nine CJP.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected through the Personality Inventory for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-5 Short Form (PID-5 SF) (Maples et al., 2015), and forced-choice questions were designed to measure crime-related characteristics.
Findings
Confirmatory factor analysis showed that PID-5 SF exhibited a good to excellent construct validity based on the DSM-5 criteria of using three facets to measure a domain (APA, 2013). Multivariate analysis showed that convicts who have committed different crime types and have criminal records exhibit different personality domains.
Originality/value
In addition to the literature, the data from all CJP, Pakistan, was collected and tested so that need for personality-oriented intervention could be identified for the prison setting. This also highlights that the usefulness of PID-5 SF is not only in identifying maladaptive personality among incarcerated convicts but also in differentiating between different crime-related characteristics.
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Acknowledgements
Compliance with ethical standards and conflict of interest: No research funding was obtained in the present study. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest. Permission was taken for data collection from IG Prisons Punjab and informed consent was taken from each participant separately after describing them the purpose of research and they were made sure that data will be used for research purpose only and will not be shared without their consent, whereas their identity will be held hidden.
Citation
Ishfaq, N. and Kamal, A. (2023), "Maladaptive personality domains and crime related characteristics among convicts incarcerated in central jails of Pakistan", Journal of Criminal Psychology, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 265-281. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-11-2021-0043
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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