Antisocial Personality Disorder and its Connection to Deviant Behavior: A Mini Review

Yucheng Jiang

doi:10.54097/y0n6qh24

Authors

Yucheng Jiang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/y0n6qh24

Keywords:

Antisocial Personality Disorder, deviant behavior, criminal behavior, mental disorder, treatment, abnormal behavior.

Abstract

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). American Psychiatric Publishing.
Prigerson, H. G., Kakarala, S., Gang, J., & Maciejewski, P. K. (2021). History and status of prolonged grief disorder as a psychiatric diagnosis. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 17, 109 -
Gadd, D., Henderson, J., Radcliffe, P., Stephens-Lewis, D., Johnson, A., & Gilchrist, G. (2019). The dynamics of domestic abuse and drug and alcohol dependency. The British Journal of Criminology, 59 (5), 1035 -
Kaplan, H. I., & Sadock, B. J. V. (2014). Kaplan and Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Moran, P. (1999). The epidemiology of antisocial personality disorder. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 34, 231 -
Werner, K. B., Few, L. R., & Bucholz, K. K. (2015). Epidemiology, comorbidity, and behavioral genetics of antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy. Psychiatric Annals, 45 (4), 195 -
McGilloway, A., Hall, R. E., Bhui, K. S. (2010). A systematic review of personality disorder, race and ethnicity: Prevalence, aetiology, and treatment. BMC Psychiatry, 10, 33 -
Zuckerman, M. (2003). Are there racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality? A critique of Lynn's (2002) racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 35(6), 1463 -
Ferguson, C. (2010). Genetic contributions to antisocial personality and behavior: A meta-analytic review from an evolutionary perspective. The Journal of Social Psychology, 150 (2), 160 -
Basoglu, C. O., Ates, A., Algul, A., Bez, Y., Cetin, M., Herken, H., Erdal, M. E., Munir, K. M. (2011). Synaptosomal-associated protein 25 gene polymorphisms and antisocial personality disorder: Association with temperament and psychopathy. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 56 (6), 341 -
Rosenstrom, T., Ystrom, E., Torvik, F. A., Czajkowski, N. O., Gillespie, N. A., Aggen, S. H., Krueger, R. F., Kendler, K. S., & Reichborn-Kjennerud, T. (2017). Genetic and environmental structure of DSM-IV criteria for antisocial personality disorder: A twin study. Behavior Genetics, 47 (3), 265 -
Dugal, C., Brochu, E. M., Kusion, P. Y., Doucet, E., Binette, C., Peloquin, K., Godbout, N., Brassard, A. (2023). Cumulative childhood trauma, sex motives, and sexual satisfaction among emerging adults. Child Abuse & Neglect, 143, 106326.
Kleissl-Muir, S., Raymond, A., & Rahman, M. A. (2018). Incidence and factors associated with substance abuse and patient-related violence in the emergency department: A literature review. Australasian Emergency Care, 21 (4), 159 -
Sahlin, H., Kuja-Halkola, R., Bjureberg, J., Lichtenstein, P., Molero, Y., Rydell, M., Hedman, E., Runeson, B., Jokinen, J., & Ljótsson, B. (2017). Association between deliberate self-harm and violent criminality. JAMA Psychiatry, 74 (6), 615 -
Ayodeji, E., Green, J., Roberts, C., Trainor, G., Rothwell, J., Woodham, A., & Wood, A. (2015). The influence of personality disorder on outcome in adolescent self-harm. British Journal of Psychiatry, 207 (4), 313 -
Barra, S., Fittipaldi, D., Retz-Junginger, P., Merscher, J., Turner, D., & Retz, W. (2025). Borderline personality disorder and antisocial traits in justice-involved males: Associations with aggression, violent crime, and adverse childhood experiences. Psychiatric Research, 348, 116417.
van den Bosch, L. M. C., Rijckmans, M. J. N., Decoene, S., & Chapman, A. L. (2018). Treatment of antisocial personality disorder: Development of a practice-focused framework. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 58, 72 -

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[1] American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). American Psychiatric Publishing.

[2] Prigerson, H. G., Kakarala, S., Gang, J., & Maciejewski, P. K. (2021). History and status of prolonged grief disorder as a psychiatric diagnosis. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 17, 109 - 126.

[3] Gadd, D., Henderson, J., Radcliffe, P., Stephens-Lewis, D., Johnson, A., & Gilchrist, G. (2019). The dynamics of domestic abuse and drug and alcohol dependency. The British Journal of Criminology, 59 (5), 1035 - 1053.

[4] Kaplan, H. I., & Sadock, B. J. V. (2014). Kaplan and Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

[5] Moran, P. (1999). The epidemiology of antisocial personality disorder. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 34, 231 - 242.

[6] Werner, K. B., Few, L. R., & Bucholz, K. K. (2015). Epidemiology, comorbidity, and behavioral genetics of antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy. Psychiatric Annals, 45 (4), 195 - 199.

[7] McGilloway, A., Hall, R. E., Bhui, K. S. (2010). A systematic review of personality disorder, race and ethnicity: Prevalence, aetiology, and treatment. BMC Psychiatry, 10, 33 - 48.

[8] Zuckerman, M. (2003). Are there racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality? A critique of Lynn's (2002) racial and ethnic differences in psychopathic personality. Personality and Individual Differences, 35(6), 1463 - 1469.

[9] Ferguson, C. (2010). Genetic contributions to antisocial personality and behavior: A meta-analytic review from an evolutionary perspective. The Journal of Social Psychology, 150 (2), 160 - 180.

[10] Basoglu, C. O., Ates, A., Algul, A., Bez, Y., Cetin, M., Herken, H., Erdal, M. E., Munir, K. M. (2011). Synaptosomal-associated protein 25 gene polymorphisms and antisocial personality disorder: Association with temperament and psychopathy. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 56 (6), 341 - 347.

[11] Rosenstrom, T., Ystrom, E., Torvik, F. A., Czajkowski, N. O., Gillespie, N. A., Aggen, S. H., Krueger, R. F., Kendler, K. S., & Reichborn-Kjennerud, T. (2017). Genetic and environmental structure of DSM-IV criteria for antisocial personality disorder: A twin study. Behavior Genetics, 47 (3), 265 - 277.

[12] Dugal, C., Brochu, E. M., Kusion, P. Y., Doucet, E., Binette, C., Peloquin, K., Godbout, N., Brassard, A. (2023). Cumulative childhood trauma, sex motives, and sexual satisfaction among emerging adults. Child Abuse & Neglect, 143, 106326.

[13] Kleissl-Muir, S., Raymond, A., & Rahman, M. A. (2018). Incidence and factors associated with substance abuse and patient-related violence in the emergency department: A literature review. Australasian Emergency Care, 21 (4), 159 - 170.

[14] Sahlin, H., Kuja-Halkola, R., Bjureberg, J., Lichtenstein, P., Molero, Y., Rydell, M., Hedman, E., Runeson, B., Jokinen, J., & Ljótsson, B. (2017). Association between deliberate self-harm and violent criminality. JAMA Psychiatry, 74 (6), 615 - 621.

[15] Ayodeji, E., Green, J., Roberts, C., Trainor, G., Rothwell, J., Woodham, A., & Wood, A. (2015). The influence of personality disorder on outcome in adolescent self-harm. British Journal of Psychiatry, 207 (4), 313 - 319.

[16] Barra, S., Fittipaldi, D., Retz-Junginger, P., Merscher, J., Turner, D., & Retz, W. (2025). Borderline personality disorder and antisocial traits in justice-involved males: Associations with aggression, violent crime, and adverse childhood experiences. Psychiatric Research, 348, 116417.

[17] van den Bosch, L. M. C., Rijckmans, M. J. N., Decoene, S., & Chapman, A. L. (2018). Treatment of antisocial personality disorder: Development of a practice-focused framework. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 58, 72 - 78.