This study investigated the applicability of the MMPI-based criminal classification system to people hospitalized by the court after being tried on criminal charges (i.e., those adjudicated to be mentally disordered sex offenders or people who were not guilty by reason of insanity). There were two purposes for this research. One was to investigate the generalizability of a typology found useful with various penal populations. The second was to discover if that classification system could serve as a means of communication between penal institution mental health staff and forensic hospital personnel concerning viable differential treatment and prediction for offenders. / Subjects for the research were drawn from the population at the Forensic Service at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. Their MMPI profiles were obtained along with a variety of data from the patients' hospital medical files. To test the applicability of the typology to that population, statistical analyses were performed comparing the hospital patients to the prison subjects studied by Megargee et al. (1979). / There were two hypotheses tested. The first stated that different proportions of people would be classified within each typological category when comparing samples from the two settings. That hypothesis was supported. The second stated that people classified within each category would not differ in their demographic and behavioral correlates, regardless of the institution from which they came. Results did not tend to support that hypothesis. Some procedural flaws were noted, though the investigator still concluded that there was a lack of support for the use of the MMPI-based classification system with forensic hospital populations with the same meaning it has acquired within penal settings. Future research directions are discussed. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-12, Section: B, page: 3928. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75258 |
| Contributors | DOREN, DENNIS MITCHELL., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 148 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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