Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 275-280 , July 2004

Personality dimensions and criminal arrest

  • Jack Samuels

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Jack Samuels, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Meyer 4-181, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 USA
    • ,
  • O.Joseph Bienvenu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Bernadette Cullen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Paul T Costa Jr

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • William W Eaton

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Gerald Nestadt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA

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☆ Supported by Grant No. MH50616 and MH47447 from the National Institute on Mental Health, and a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Clinical Scientist Award (to J.B.).

PII: S0010-440X(04)00049-5

doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.03.013

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 4 , Pages 275-280 , July 2004

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