Conduct Disorder in Prison: Search for Prospective and Retrospective Recurring and Contextual Elements (CoDiRCE)

Groupe Hospitalier de la Rochelle Ré Aunis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mental Disorders

Treatments: Other: Antisocial personality recording of behavior and contextual elements

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02493088

2014P08040

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prediction of dangerousness remains a delicate subject, relevant in current psychiatry. Scalable psychopathological elements identified in schizophrenia and mood disorders are considered as most at risk for crime committing. The French High Authority of Health (HAS) recommends to identify and prevent risk situations of violence and to develop research at this level. Some authors have worked on criminal career and became interested in risk factors for aberrant driving behaviors but also in environmental or clinical elements accompanying these phases. To our knowledge, no specific study about contextual elements before misconduct and which could lead to aberrant driving behaviors among individuals diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder has been described to date The investigators propose to follow individuals diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder in prison during 6 months in order to list their conduct disorders and contextual elements upstream of these misconducts. The investigators will also study the effect of contextual factors related to judicial steps on the appearance of aberrant driving behaviors.

Full description

This study aims at identifying elements that can provoke frustration and lead to aberrant driving behaviors. The question is whether there are triggers that occur more frequently for the same subject. If so, these specific contextual elements could be detected in order to prevent violent acts.

Enrollment: 11 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male
• Over 18
• Detention sentence in prison in Rochefort between March and August 2015
• Positive psychopathy score at PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist-revised) test: score greater than or equal to 30

Exclusion criteria

• Chronic psychosis
• Bipolar disorder
• Women
• Minors,
• negative score at the PCL-R
• Subject under protection measure (curator or guardian)
• Refusal to participate

Trial design

11 participants in 1 patient group

Antisocial personality

Description:

Individuals Diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder

Treatment:

Other: Antisocial personality recording of behavior and contextual elements