VIOLENCE RISK IN PERSONALITY DISORDERS
VIOLENCE RISK IN PERSONALITY DISORDERS

Summary/Abstract: The history of personality disorders renders evident the evolution of defining and identifying them towards a forensic evaluation concept, mainly promoted in the psychological and juridical-psychiatric domain. The assessment of personality disorders described in DSM and ICD, on priority diagnoses of behavioral type, although it may serve as a mark, relatively non-controversial, it causes polemic between the specialists in medical-legal expertise. Consequently, in order to reveal the personality traits associated to psychopathy, is used the Psychopathy Checklist (Hare, PCL-R, 1991; 2003). Modern statistic and clinical instruments (PCL-R, HCR-20) win ground in psychiatric forensic evaluation and violence management. The prediction of violent behavior by statistic instruments requires a validation on particular populations.

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