Title Identity pathology, psychopathology, and risk of reoffending in emerging adulthood: an examination of relationships in Lithuanian custodial male sample /
Authors Laurinavičius, Alfredas ; Klimukienė, Virginija ; Sakalauskas, Gintautas
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Is Part of EAPL 2024. Annual conference of European Association of Psychology and Law, 9th to 12th July 2024, Caparica, Portugal : e-book conference abstracts.. Egas Moniz School of health and science European Association of Psychology and Law. 2024, p. [150-151]
Keywords [eng] criminal risk assessment ; identity ; psychopathology ; emerging adulthood
Abstract [eng] Adolescence and emerging adulthood are often characterized as a search for one's place in the world and a pursuit of a personal identity sometimes accompanied by difficulties of externalized or internalized nature. Psychopathological problems, especially externalized ones, have always been considered as one of the causes of offending and usually are included in risk assessment. However, in adolescence and emerging adulthood, an identity pathology can also be considered as a risk factor. Risk assessments are performed routinely in Lithuanian correctional institutions, but the question of whether the risk assessment instruments reflect the specific characteristics related to the psychopathology or identity pathology of convicts is open. In the paper, the relationships between two risk assessment instruments and different kinds of pathology are analysed. The sample consisted of 99 male offenders serving a custodial sentence and aged 18 to 23 years. For risk assessment, The Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version START: AV (Viljoen et al., 2014) and Offender Assessment System OASys (Home Office, 2002) were used. The expression of psychopathology was evaluated using The Adult Self Report ASR (Achenbach and Rescorla 2003). The identity pathology was evaluated using the Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence AIDA (Goth et al., 2012). The results showed statistically significant relationships between psychopathology, identity pathology and START: AV scores of risk of adverse outcomes, strengths and vulnerabilities, however very few and some contradictory relationships with OASys scores were observed. The results suggest that the START: AV ratings more sensitively reflect the problems of young offenders and this can serve for the selection of appropriate interventions. However other explanations of the results, namely specifics of the assessment tools and procedures, qualification of raters, and specifics of risks assessed are going to be overviewed.
Published Egas Moniz School of health and science European Association of Psychology and Law
Type Conference paper
Language English
Publication date 2024
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