Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

The Role of Personality Disorders in the Commission of Sexual Crimes: A Case Study of Criminals with a Record of Sexual Crimes in Tehran

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Saman Abdollahi
Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Naragh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Naragh, Iran.
10.22034/jclc.2024.479610.2049
Abstract
Field and Aims: Committing sexual crimes as one of the most important crimes in society has different causes, the most important of which can be personality and psychological disorders. Based on this, the aim of this research is to investigate personality disorders and committing sexual crimes in criminals with a record of sexual crimes in Tehran prisons in 2024.
Method: Since the research method has a direct and close relationship with the research topic, in this research, two documentary and survey methods were used, and sources and documents were referred to study theories and obtain information, and to measure and analyze the role of personality disorders. In the commission of sexual crimes, the survey method has been used in data collection, organizing them and the possibility of statistical operations on the information.
The statistical population is the criminals with a history of sexual crimes in the prisons of Tehran in 2024, and 212 of them were selected as the sample size using the Lin and Morgan table. The tool for collecting and measuring the variables in this research has been made by the researcher according to the research method and the type of research.
Findings and Conclusions: In the test of research hypotheses, there is a significant relationship between the amount of psychopathy, the amount of self-control and the amount of stubbornness in people and the commission of sexual crimes. According to the coefficients obtained in the path analysis, the independent variable of psychopathy with a coefficient of 0.66 has the greatest impact on the commission of sexual crimes, and according to the positive relationship coefficient, the higher the level of psychopathy in people, the more likely and prediction the commission of sexual crimes is. becomes more in an inverse relationship, where the regression coefficient is -0.57, the self-control variable and its increase decrease the commission of sexual crimes. Finally, the independent variable of stubbornness has a positive and direct effect on committing sexual crimes with a coefficient of 0.46.
Keywords
Personality disorders
Sex crimes
Ex-offenders
Prison
Sex offenders
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Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Volume 12, Issue 24
March 2025
Pages 261-284