Which Clinical and Demographic Factors are Related to Incarceration in Male Patients With Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Published date | 01 December 2023 |
DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X221139073 |
Author | Cecilia Maria Esposito,Alessandro Ceresa,Anna Maria Auxilia,Francesco Zanelli Quarantini,Alice Caldiroli,Enrico Capuzzi,Massimo Clerici,Massimiliano Buoli |
Date | 01 December 2023 |
Subject Matter | Articles |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X221139073
International Journal of
Offender Therapy and
Comparative Criminology
2023, Vol. 67(16) 1630 –1641
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Article
Which Clinical and
Demographic Factors are
Related to Incarceration in
Male Patients With Antisocial
Personality Disorder?
Cecilia Maria Esposito1, Alessandro Ceresa1,
Anna Maria Auxilia2, Francesco Zanelli Quarantini1,
Alice Caldiroli3, Enrico Capuzzi3, Massimo Clerici2,3,
and Massimiliano Buoli1,4
Abstract
Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) is a condition largely represented in detention
centers where can reach a prevalence of 60% in male prisoners. The objective of this
study is to identify the clinical and demographic factors that differentiate subjects
with APD and hosted in penitentiary with respect to those are treated in outpatient
psychiatric clinics. We recruited 65 male patients affected by APD, whose 26 were
followed up in community mental health services and 39 were serving their sentence
in a detention center located in Monza. Socio-demographic and clinical data were
obtained through a review of the clinical charts, and interviews with patients or
their relatives (if available). We performed descriptive analyses on the total sample,
then we compared the two groups identified by the type of setting (outpatient
clinic vs. penitentiary) by independent sample t tests (quantitative variables) or
χ2 tests (qualitative ones). For qualitative variables odds ratios (ORs) were also
calculated. Outpatients with APD (with respect to those hosted in the detention
center) resulted: to be older (p = .02), to be less likely married (p = .01), to have
more pre-onset psychiatric comorbidity (p = .05), to have more pre-onset substance
1Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
2University of Milano Bicocca, Monza, Italy
3Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Monza, Italy
4University of Milan, Italy
Corresponding Author:
Cecilia Maria Esposito, Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda
Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, Milan 20122, Italy.
Email: cecilia.esposito@unimi.it
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