Journal of Forensic Psychology

Psychological Determinants of Angry and Aggressive Behaviour in Violent Prisoners

Denise Ginzburg^* Department of Psychology, University Medical Center of the Johannes, Mainz, Germany
^*Correspondence: Denise Ginzburg, Department of Psychology, University Medical Center of the Johannes, Mainz, Germany, Email:

Received: 25-Nov-2022, Manuscript No. JFPY-22-19405; Editor assigned: 02-Dec-2022, Pre QC No. JFPY-22-19405 (PQ); Reviewed: 16-Dec-2022, QC No. JFPY-22-19405; Revised: 23-Dec-2022, Manuscript No. JFPY-22-19405 (R); Published: 30-Dec-2022, DOI: DOI: 10.35248/2475-319X.22.7.261

Description

Criminal proceedings are the body of laws and regulations that apply to cases involving people who are accused. They start with the initial investigation of the crime and end either with the accused's unconditional release as a result of their acquittal or with the imposition of a sentence as a result of their conviction for the crime.

The current study examines the psychological factors that influence state anger and aggression in violent jail inmates using a functional analysis of aggressive conduct as a foundation. There is a lot of overlap in these characteristics between the samples of violent jail convicts and psychiatric forensic inpatients. Next, the influence of neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, hostility, and rage on the aggression and hostility of violent prisoners was investigated. 102 male prisoners serving four years or more in jail for a serious violent offence provided the data. The correlation between the patients' anger and aggression-related traits was evaluated using linear regression models. It was discovered that hostility, trait anger, and neuroticism all influenced state anger. Additionally, state anger was the key reason causing hostility. The results' implications for lowering rage and violence in violent prisoners are examined.

It is critical to understand the psychological causes of anger and aggression in jail inmates since violence inside prisons has a significant negative impact on both inmates and staff. The psychological, clinical, and environmental variables of violent conduct among prisoners and forensic psychiatric inpatients have been the subject of substantial research over the past few decades. Following an assessment of the literature on the connection between personality disorders and violence in both populations, the researchers decided that the General Aggression Model was the best hypothesis to use to frame key factors influencing aggression.

For instance, associations between aggressive behaviour, the NEO Five-Factor Model, and personality traits have been extensively researched in various groups. Jones et al. discovered that aggressiveness appears to be positively connected to the Big Five domain of neuroticism and negatively related to the domains of agreeableness and conscientiousness in a metaanalysis of 53 researches in offender and no offender populations.

Anger, violence, and goal-oriented conduct are all regulated by the mental processes of executive function. Their main function is to regulate behaviour and emotions through cognitive planning and control.

The decreased recidivism rates among forensic psychiatric patients suggest that the care and therapies provided to these patients are successful. Furthermore, clearly defined cognitivebehavioral programmers that emphasize cognitive abilities, cognitive restructuring, moral education, and reasoning successfully lower criminal conduct in sentenced offenders.

Aggression committed with a purpose is not always motivated by trait or state rage. Therefore, it is not reasonable to extrapolate the current findings to those whose behaviour largely comprises antisocial instrumental violence. The variables behind the proactive hostility of the prisoners require more study. A specially created instrument, such as the Reactive Proactive Questionnaire, may be used to quantify reactive and proactive aggressiveness in a future research on aggressive, proactive behaviour.

The determinants addressed in this study are relatively general, and as the current study is cross-sectional, more research is required to determine the potential causal links between the various determinants and rage and aggressiveness. Such as studies into the precise cognitive, perceptual, and informationprocessing mechanisms connected to emotion dysregulation. The relationship between the numerous variables on the one hand and rage and aggressiveness on the other can be better understood through interventions intended to improve behaviour.