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Utility of the Megargee-Bohn MMPI Typological Assignments

Study with a Sample of Death Row Inmates

W. GRANT DAHLSTROM

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

JAMES H. PANTON

North Carolina Department of Correction

KENNETH P. BAIN

Delaware County Counseling Services, Indiana

LEONA E. DAHLSTROM

Chapel Hill

Panton (1978) examined 55 felons awaiting execution in North Carolina Central Prison before and after the U.S. Supreme Court declared the North Carolina death penalty unconstitutional. The interval between tests ranged from 6 to 49 months. Subsequently, these men were resentenced and reassigned in the prison system. Profiles from this serendipitous study were used to examine the usefulness of the Megargee-Bohn (M-B) classification system, which was derived from federal offenders, in evaluating felons in a state system who were tested under two quite dramatically different penal circumstances. Because capital offenses are a relatively rare occurrence in the federal prison system, it seemed important to know how well the M-B system covered profiles obtained from offenders in a state system found guilty of such charges (murder, rape, or first-degree burglary). The findings on this and related problems in the practical application of configural rules were encouraging in regard to reproducibility across workers and prison systems but less so in stability of type assignment.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 1, 5-17 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854886013001001
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