Personality, Delinquency, and Criminal Recidivism

This study explores the relationship between PEN profiles, delinquency, and recidivism in young offenders. According to Eysenck, personality is based on three basic Dimensions: Psychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroticism (PEN-model). Eysenck states that delinquents score high on all three dimensions...

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Published in:Adolescence 2007, Vol.42 (168), p.763-777
Main Authors: van Dam, Coleta, De Bruyn, Eric E. J, Janssens, Jan M. A. M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Adolescent Psychiatry - methods
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aggression
Anatomy
Antisocial Behavior
Antisocial Personality Disorder - diagnosis
Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology
Arousal Patterns
Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Cluster Analysis
Conceptual Tempo
Conditioning
Correctional Institutions
Crime - psychology
Crime - statistics & numerical data
Criminal Psychology - methods
Criminals
Criminology
Data collection
Delinquency
Depression (Psychology)
Extraversion (Psychology)
Foreign Countries
Fraud
Humans
Individualized Instruction
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency - psychology
Juvenile Delinquency - statistics & numerical data
Juvenile Justice
Juvenile offenders
Male
Males
Medical sciences
Multivariate Analysis
Netherlands
Neurotic Disorders - diagnosis
Neurotic Disorders - psychology
Offenders
Personality
Personality (Psychology)
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Personality Measures
Personality Studies
Personality Traits
Profiles
Psychological aspects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychotic Disorders - diagnosis
Psychotic Disorders - psychology
Recidivism
Recurrence
Reproducibility of Results
Resistance (Psychology)
Scores
Self Control
Social Behavior
Social behavior disorders. Criminal behavior. Delinquency
Stimuli
Surveys and Questionnaires
Survival analysis
Time Factors
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Summary:This study explores the relationship between PEN profiles, delinquency, and recidivism in young offenders. According to Eysenck, personality is based on three basic Dimensions: Psychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroticism (PEN-model). Eysenck states that delinquents score high on all three dimensions. A group of young male offenders in a juvenile detention center in the Netherlands were studied to test Eysenck's hypothesis, which was partially confirmed. From a cluster analysis it appear that only a small group of offenders had high scores on all three PEN dimensions. Finally, it was concluded that the PEN profiles were not able to differentiate between recidivists and nonrecidivists. (Contains 5 tables and 1 figure.)
ISSN:0001-8449