Descripción multidimensional de la población carcelaria chilena

Abstract

The knowledge of the characteristics of the Chilean convict population is of main importance in order to devise Health services in this area, nevertheless there was no representative information on the subject in Chile. This transversal design study describes convicted population in its socio-demographic, criminological, and clinical dimensions. We evaluated two hundred and nine subjects who were inmates in a jail of the 5th Region of Chile, using multiple data sources, video-recoded interviews and the instruments Hare Psychopaty Checklist - Revised and the HCR-20. Findings show that the prevalence of anti-social personality disorders was 67% and that the psychopathic disorder prevalence was 13%.Tthe existence of criminal and drug abuse records were among historical violence risk factors. Impulsiveness was among the clinical risk factors leading to violence.