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Dec 7, 2015 · Psychopathy. The Psychopath and Violence: Predatory and Affective. Most people imagine that the psychopath is controlled - but not always. Posted December 7, 2015. If we base our...
Thus, Richards et al.'s findings suggest that psychopathy was associated with poorer treatment response, greater general recidivism risk upon release, and violence during the treatment, but was not associated with violence rates post-treatment.
- Dennis E. Reidy, Megan C. Kearns, Sarah DeGue
- 2013
Psychopathy is an early-appearing risk factor for severe and chronic violence. The violence largely attributable to psychopathy constitutes a substantial portion of the societal burden to the public health and criminal justice systems, and thus necessitates significant attention from prevention experts.
- Dennis E. Reidy, Megan C. Kearns, Sarah DeGue, Scott O. Lilienfeld, Greta Massetti, Kent A. Kiehl
- 2015
- 1 Homicide
- 2 Assault
- 3 Intimate Partner Violence
- 4 Sexual Offending
- 5 Robbery
- 6 Violent Recidivism
- 7 Prison and Inpatient Violence
- 8 Summary
There is limited research exploring the link between psychopathy and homicide, and what exists is somewhat conflicting. Some findings, for example, demonstrate a weak association between psychopathy and homicide offending. For example, research from the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disordered (DSPD) unit in the United Kingdom found that psychop...
Most studies exploring the link between psychopathy and violence do not disentangle types of violence (e.g., homicide, assault, robbery). Thus, there remains a scarcity of research testing the association between psychopathy and assault, specifically. Recently, Reidy et al. (2016) explored the association between the 3- and 4-facet model of psychop...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as physical, sexual, psychological aggression, or stalking perpetrated by a current or former partner or spouse (CDC, 2020). Research linking psychopathy to IPV has been growing, and this research shows that psychopathic traits are related to a host of strategies to gain dominance and control over current,...
To date, most research assessing the association between psychopathy and sexual offending does not differentiate “serious sexual offenses,” such as rape or sexual assault, from “other sexual offenses.” As such, the authors use “sexual offending” as a catch-all term for all forms of sexual offending, unless stated otherwise. Research involving commu...
Robbery is defined as using physical force, coercion, and/or intimidation to take property from another person (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2017; Thomson, 2018). In contrast, theft is defined as intentionally and dishonestly taking property from another person. Although robbery costs the US about $74 billion each year (DeLisi et al., 2017; Thomso...
The aims of prison are deterrence, punishment, and rehabilitation. However, some men and women continue to engage in violence when they leave prison. In both men and women, psychopathy is a predictor for violent recidivism (Dhingra & Boduszek, 2013). In a large sample of male and female released offenders, Factor 1 was found to predict violent reof...
Psychopathic individuals continue to be violent during incarceration (Thomson, 2019), and research has shown that the Antisocial facet predicts prison violence in both men and women (Warren et al., 2017). This suggests, similar to past findings, that the Antisocial facet is a gender-neutral risk factor. By contrast, the Affective facet seems to be ...
The research detailing the associations between psychopathy and the major types of violent crime covered in this chapter clearly presents limitations in the overall assessment and evaluation of critical risk factors for violence in psychopathic individuals. First, a significant amount of research documents a weak association between homicide and to...
Mar 1, 2022 · DeAngelis, T. (2022, March 1). A broader view of psychopathy. Monitor on Psychology, 53 (2). https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/03/ce-corner-psychopathy. Psychopath. It is a term that tends to conjure images of violent criminals or public figures capable of heinous or egregiously selfish acts on a broader scale.
Dec 1, 2007 · A large body of literature has established that the construct of psychopathy is broadly related to violence, and the clinical application of the psychopathy construct as a predictor of violence appears to be increasing. This increased application warrants further specification of this relationship.
Jun 1, 1999 · Psychopathy is associated with criminality ( 2, 3, 4) and specifically with violent crime. Compared with nonpsychopathic offenders, psychopaths have more criminal charges per year spent unincarcerated and more convictions for violent crimes; they are also responsible for more violence in prisons ( 5 ).
