Risk factors for criminal behavior

Description:  
PHD-project (Asle M. Sandvik) funded by the University of Bergen focusing on different risk factors for criminal behavior. Collaborators were Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychiatry, Haukeland University Hospital, and Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center (SRSTC), Wisconsin.  

Main supervisor: Anita L. Hansen. Co-supervisors: Bjørn Helge Johnsen and Jon Christian Laberg.

Objectives:  
The overall purpose of the project was to obtain more knowledge about risk assessment of criminal behavior. Crimes are closely linked to severe mental disorders such as antisocial- and borderline personality disorders, psychopathy, narcissism, affective disturbances, interpersonal relationships problems and insecure attachment. 

Output:  

• Sandvik, A., Hansen, A. L., Kristensen, M. V., Johnsen, B. H., Logan, C., & Thornton, D., (2012). Assessment of Psychopathy: Inter-correlations between Psychopathy Checklist Revised, comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality- Institutional Rating scale, and Self-report of Psychopathy Scale III. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 11, 280-288.  
• Sandvik, A.M., Hansen, A. L., Hystad, S. W., Johnsen, B. H., & Bartone, P. (2015). Psychopathy, anxiety, and resiliency - Psychological hardiness as a mediator of the psychopathy-anxiety relationship in a prison setting. Personality and Individual differences, 72, 30-34 
• Sandvik, A., Hansen, A. L., Johnsen, & Laberg, J. C. (2014). Psychopathy and the ability to read the “language of the eyes”: Divergence in the psychopathy construct. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.  DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12138