RT Article
T1 The Criminal Narrative Experience of Psychopathic and Personality Disordered Offenders
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 4
SP 523
OP 542
A1 Goodlad, Katie
A1 Ioannou, Maria
A1 Hunter, Melanie
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1667572571
AB Given the challenges associated with psychopathic and personality disordered offenders, further insight is needed. One way of doing this is by looking at offending from the first-person perspective. The study investigated the criminal narrative experience (CNE) of this population during the commissioning of crimes. Twenty-two high-risk male offenders were recruited and a questionnaire design was used. The data were analysed using Smallest Space Analysis which revealed four themes consistent with Ioannou, Canter, and Youngs's CNE framework: depressed victim, distressed revenger, calm professional, and elated hero. Independent samples t tests explored whether personality disorders related to CNE themes, and Pearson's product-moment correlation was used to explore the relationship between psychopathy and the CNE themes. Borderline personality disorder identified with the depressed victim. Paranoid and schizoid personality disorders did not identify with the calm professional. There was no significant relationship between psychopathy and the CNE themes. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
K1 Criminal narratives
K1 Criminal narrative experience
K1 Narrative theory
K1 Emotions
K1 Psychopathy
K1 Personality disorder
DO 10.1177/0306624X18808433