Antisocial Personality Disorders Among Criminals Antisocial personality disorder is very common among criminals. Criminals typically have something happen in their lives that caused these acts of violence or rule breaking to occur. Personality disorders and social problems are common not only among criminals, but in the general population. The extent to which innocent people are affected by the disturbances caused by criminals varies, and some even lose their lives and loved ones. This report will include: signs of antisocial personality disorders among criminals, tests, factors that drive these criminals to act, causes, statics, treatment, and how people around the criminal are affected by antisocial personality disorders. There are always symptoms with a problems such as an automobile problem, the common cold, illnesses and psychological problems. Although in this situation the symptoms of psychological problems are indeed common among criminals. This psychological problem is antisocial personality disorder. “Antipersonality disorder is characterized by contempt for social obligations and a callous indifference to the feelings of others.” (Lungo, n.d.) In most cases, people suffering from antisocial personality disorders must meet certain criteria: social norm with respect to lawful behavior (repeated acts of arrest), repeated lies, aliases, or defrauding others for profit/pleasure , failure to plan ahead, aggression and repeated physical assault, lack of concern for the safety of others or oneself, irresponsibility and inability to maintain consistent employment, lack of remorse. “Age-appropriate social norms or rules are violated, as evidenced by the presence of 3 of the following fifteen criteria: “bullying, threatening, or intimidating… middle of paper… disorder is common among criminals . As mentioned above, scientist Francia and colleagues examined 251 rapists and 311 child molesters and compared them to a group of non-sexual offenders. This research on rapists, child molesters, and nonsexual offenders found that rapists had suggestively higher levels of antisocial personality traits than child molesters, but no difference in narcissistic traits. Nonsexual offenders also rank higher on the antisocial scale than child molesters, but no higher than rapists. (Medscape Log In) Some criminals do not have the ability to get rid of this mental problem, some criminals have overcome the disorder, but most of the time it takes something to trigger the thinking and the disorder to return. This personality problem may take years to correct. Anti-personality disorders among criminals affect cities, citizens and families.