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13 Crim. Just. & Behavior 5 (1986)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv13 and id is 1 raw text is: 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. I n July 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty statutes of North Carolina unconstitutional. This action resulted in the commutation to a life sentence of 115 male inmates quartered on Death Row in the state's maximum security prison Authors' Note: Preliminary findings from this study were reported at the Eighteenth Annual MMPI Conference, Minneapolis MN, April 1983. We CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 13 No. 1, March 1986 5-17 © 1986 American Association of Correctional Psychologists 5 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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