ADJ-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Cerner, Circular Reasoning
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Disregard for normals, rules, obligations, no life plan. Relations with others: superficial, deceptiveness, disconnected/impersonal, lack of empathy. **if you have sufficient # of these traits, you may end up with diagnosis with either antisocial/psychopathy you do need all of them. Personality traits commit crime defective personality back to personality traits. Correlation or causation relationships some other thing happening leads to either traits or crime. Medically recognized impaired cognition and perception the world. Affects 0. 4% of the world"s populations, 1. 5-4. 4% in prison populations. See a concentration with serious mental health problems. Afftes 1-3% of adult populations; 46% in prison populations. ~2. 8 mil people in la over age 15 in 2017. 85,000 may suffer from antisocial personality disorder (3%) Approx 1 in 3 with apd would need to steal a car. 132,125 violent + property crimes in 2017. Each would need to commit 1. 5 crimes a year. But not plausible because a lot of them have nothing to do with crime.
