👤💥 Quick Overview
This chapter continues exploring criminogenic personalities, focusing on Borderline, Narcissistic, and Paranoid Personality Disorders and their relationship to criminal behavior. It also addresses the changeability vs. predictability debate.
😢💔 Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Also called: Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder
- Key features: Emotional dysregulation, "black-and-white" thinking, unstable relationships
- Key insight: They are VICTIMS of their own distorted thoughts, not typically aggressive toward others
- Crimes: Shoplifting, overspending, drug abuse, reckless driving, gambling (self-destructive)
👑🪞 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Origin: Greek myth of Narcissus who fell in love with his own reflection
- Key features: Grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
- Danger: Will go to EXTREME levels to get what they want ("Marry me or I'll kill your mother")
- Crimes: Emotional abuse, white collar crimes, violent crimes when enraged, acid attacks
🔍😨 Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD)
- Key features: Pervasive suspiciousness, generalized mistrust, hypersensitivity
- Higher risk for: Depression and social isolation
- Crimes: Violence from unjust suspicions, murder of spouse based on false allegations, stalking
🔄 Changeability vs. Predictability Debate
Key factors: Neuroplasticity (brain can change), treatment effects, age-related changes (antisocial behavior often decreases with age), environmental factors, but some biological traits may resist change.