Author(s)

Jiaxuan Wang, Hanru Dong, Ruining Te, Yixin Zhang

Corresponding Author

Ruining Te

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses what types of crime are caused by the comorbidity of depression and antisocial personality disorder. The paper illustrates the identifying symptoms of depression and antisocial personality disorder, as well as symptoms that are comorbid with both in the first part. For example, individuals with depression have symptoms such as hopelessness, individuals with antisocial personality disorder cannot empathize well with others, and human beings with depression and antisocial personality disorder suffer from alcohol and drugs addiction. And these symptoms can lead to different types of crimes. Because humans with depression often despair and deny themselves, they will commit suicide and murderous behaviour; humans with sociopath cannot understand the sadness of others, so most of them will become serial murderers; and comorbid features of two mental illnesses, alcohol and drug addiction, that lead to violent crime. In addition, the study proposes that both depression and antisocial personality disorder are related to childhood experiences, such as frequent parental fights or parental divorce during childhood. The significance of this review is that individuals’ behaviour can be used to determine the mental illness they may have, so as to reasonably prevent possible criminal behaviour in the future.

KEYWORDS

Depression, Antisocial personality, Comorbidity, Criminal types