Sometimes problems and Difficulties happen in a humen’s life that unbalance the Compatibility a mental equivalence, therefore tensions and sadness come to life that maybe result in a mental disorders.The issue of Psychiatric patients with law and committing crime is one of the dilemmas of fair trial. Thus the court are responsible for attracting and capturing psychiatrist expert’s ideas. In all criminal laws checking the deserve punishment or removing penalties, of an offender is related to demonstrating this issue that whether a person who has a mental disorder, due to the understanding the nature of criminal behavior has the ability to detect the criminal result or not.In this paper, we try to survey the approach of criminal justice system of Iran with problem and subject of unti-social personality and it’s effect on the attribution of crim to offender.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between substance dependency and personality disorders.Materials and Methods: Ninety eight patients with substance dependency who had referred to a psychiatry and substance rehabilitation center in Tehran took part in this study. Data were collected using questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. Participants were examined for conduct and antisocial personality disorders. Non-parametric tests were used for data analysis.Results: Eighty eight percentage of the participants showed adult antisocial behaviors. Forty two percentage of the patients with substance dependency were diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, while 47.9% (n=47) suffered from conduct disorder. Only 22 participants had such problems before beginning substance abuse. Abuse frequency, financial status, previous attempts to quit drugs, educational level and family background did not significantly affect the status of antisocial personality disorder and conduct disorder. However, smoking and using alcohol were found to be playing a role in suffering from such disorders.Conclusion: The results of the present study demonstrate a direct relationship between substance abuse and personality disorders. This indicates the need for more preventive measures to control substance abuse especially among teenagers in order to have fewer individuals with personality disorders in the society.

Background: The present study was conducted to compare the prevalence and severity of crimes as well as risk factors in crime incidents in two groups of patients with schizophrenia and antisocial personality disorder in order to determine the high-risk group for further preventive approaches.Methods: We have included 74 criminals suffering from antisocial personality disorder and 47 schizophrenia criminal cases, who had been referred during a one-year period by the court in order to receive psychiatric consultation for criminal responsibility. A conformed interview was achieved and a questionnaire was filled including initial data regarding the demographic factors, their victims, type of crimes and the way they had planned. Finally, SPSS software was used for data analysis.Results: The most violent criminals had been attempted by schizophrenic patients (p=0.001). In these patients, there was a significant correlation between crime prevalence and factors like male gender, single hood, noncompliance and financial dependence to the family. In other words their relatives were the major victims of their crimes. However, in patients with antisocial personality disorder unemployment was not a predisposing factor and they mainly committed crime against strangers. These crimes were committed in the early stages of their disorder. Committing crimes 5-10 years later after beginning of their sickness indicated that unemployment was the most important factor made schizophrenic patients does the illegal actions.Conclusion: Patients with antisocial personality disorder commit further crimes; however, schizophrenic patients commit more severe crimes. Trend of schizophrenic patients to their relatives necessitates further family support and patients acceptance by relatives in addition to rehabilitation. Meanwhile, finding a solution for their unemployment could be of great help.

Objective: The present study aims at providing a clearer image of antisocial personality disorder through the evaluation of different dimensions of temperament and character factors in individuals with this disorder, and comparing them with normal subjects.Method: 24 male subjects with antisocial personality disorder were chosen using Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID-II). Rate of depression and anxiety were measured as covariates using Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventory. Also, dimensions of temperament and character were assessed by Cloninger's Temperament Character Inventory.Results: People with antisocial personality disorder scored higher on novelty seeking and harm avoidance and lower in persistence, self directedness, and cooperativeness in comparison with normal population. Scores of reward dependence and self transcendence were in the range of normal population. There was a positive correlation between harm avoidance and Beck anxiety score.Conclusions: Lower scores on character factors indicate weaker development of character and the presence of personality disorder. Higher scores on novelty seeking and lower scores on persistence (among character factors) are associated with personality traits of Cluster B. High scores of harm avoidance and normal scores of reward dependence are incompatible with previous studies, the most probable cause of which - in addition to the small number of subjects - can be the presence of people with secondary psychopathy traits and anxiety among the clinical subjects, which in turn affects the harm avoidance dimension.

Introduction: The aim of this study is investigation of the neuropsychological index associated with executive function in people with antisocial and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder in comparison of normal pepole.Method: This is a causal- comparative study. By accessible sampling method, 30 prisoners with ASPD, 30 patients with OCPD, and 30 normal people from Semnan city were selected by MCMI and Matchg test. The Stroop, Tower of London and TMT tests were used for collection of data. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software. Multivariate Analysis Of Variance (MANOVA) and Univariate Analysis of Variance Test (ANOVA) was used.Results: Results indicated that people with antisocial and obsessive- compulsive personality disorder have lower performance in the most of executive functions parameters than normal people. This difference was statistically significant (p<0.05). However, there was no significant differences in the Stroop effect and number of errors between groups (p>0.05).Conclusion: According to the findings, people with antisocial and obsessive- compulsive personality disorder have lower performance in executive function than normal indivithose people.