Mentally Disordered Offenders' Accounts of Their Crimes
Sixty male offenders newly admitted to a secure psychiatric setting made a variety of attributional ratings concerning their own offense and the offenses of eight other offenders. A nonoffender control subject was yoked to each offender by being given the latter's history and offense descriptio...
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| Published in: | Criminal justice and behavior Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 472 - 489 |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Beverly Hills, Calif
SAGE Periodicals Press
01-09-1996
Sage Publications SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC |
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| Summary: | Sixty male offenders newly admitted to a secure psychiatric setting made a variety of attributional ratings concerning their own offense and the offenses of eight other offenders. A nonoffender control subject was yoked to each offender by being given the latter's history and offense description to explain and rate. In addition, control subjects evaluated the eight standard history and offense descriptions. There were no differences in the ratings of the standard crime and history descriptions between offenders and their yoked controls, except that offenders rated the causes of other offenders' crimes as less stable and others' likelihood of reoffending as lower than did nonoffenders. As predicted, personality-disordered stimulus offenders were rated as more blameworthy, more likely to reoffend, and more responsible for their crimes than psychotic stimulus offenders. Offenders rated themselves as less likely to reoffend than their yoked controls rated them. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0093-8548 1552-3594 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0093854896023003004 |