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The use of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) absent any paraphilia to recommend civil commitment as a sexually violent predator is diagnostically a flawed conclusion. Without the co-morbid paraphilia existing simultaneously but independently there can be no diagnostic conclusion regarding sexual deviancy, preferences, or risk. Without such diagnostic conclusions ASPD cannot be used to infer, predict, assess, or correlate with any future sexual behavior, legal or illegal. This article will use DeClue's recent publication as a starting point for exploring this topic as it adequately presents all of the arguments for the use of ASPD in isolation as a basis for civil commitment recommendations of sexually violent predators.

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Antisocial personality disorder sexually violent predator civil commitment sex offender risk assessment

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The Diagnostic Issue of Antisocial Personality Disorder in Civil Commitment Proceedings: A Response to DeClue

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