Statements of Interest
The misconception of many is to assume that psychopathy and sociopathy are the same disorders. While they are very similar there are key characteristics which make them different. These mental disorders are classified differently in the DSM-5 “The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders” in addition to that both are under the subgroup of antisocial personality disorder. It is common for both mental disorders to be used in the place of one another. Although there are significant distinctions between psychopathy and sociopathy. Firstly the debate of nature versus nurture is a defining feature. Nature which can be defined as a genetic predisposition of how a psychopath came to be. However nurture is …show more content…
The two that were chosen were ProQuest database and the EBSCOhost database which was under psychology and behavioral science collection. Under ProQuest the word search chosen was “psychopath in men and women” this word search brought up 40 hits while in the second word search on EBSCOhost the words typed in the search bar were “Psychopaths in the courtroom” that pulled up a total of 383 hits. In the final search through EBSCOhost the words to be searched were “Psychopath castration” that popped up 665 hits. Each search consisted of scholarly “peer reviewed” articles that were full text, all being narrowed down to after the year 2006 to 2016. Galileo was a very useful resource in gathering information for my topics which more of these articles have been saved to use for the final research …show more content…
Edens, and Jennifer Cox, (2012) one of the primary focuses for this article is how the labeling of antisocial personality disorder (APD), psychopaths, and sociopaths are made. In addition to how these labels can predict outcoomes and in what courts is it easier to diagnose as mentally ill. To start off their study Edens and Cox gave their surveys to voluntary participants attending the Fifth National Seminar on the Development and Integration of Mitigation Evidence. This was a legal seminar, and many whom attended were attorneys and mitigation specialist. These factors being relevant to their case study and even a necessity in understanding specific events that only people with their experience would know. It is important to address that only 41 forms were turned in out an estimated room full of just at around 100. With these people being their foundation there was one thing that set them apart. Those things being whether their courts had Dubert or Frye jurisdiction in admissibility in evidence. What they found was quit significant. Where the Frye test had made it harder to have evidence admissible compart to Dubert standards. The problem associated with this is that fact that because of this the standards to claim insanity were easier to do with the DSM than by the PCL-R. The DSM is what is more commonly used in Frye Jurisdictions. This evidence shows the unequal advantage of how the simplicity of what jurisdiction and individual is in can show significant impact on
The misconception of many is to assume that psychopathy and sociopathy are the same disorders. While they are very similar there are key characteristics which make them different. These mental disorders are classified differently in the DSM-5 “The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders” in addition to that both are under the subgroup of antisocial personality disorder. It is common for both mental disorders to be used in the place of one another. Although there are significant distinctions between psychopathy and sociopathy. Firstly the debate of nature versus nurture is a defining feature. Nature which can be defined as a genetic predisposition of how a psychopath came to be. However nurture is …show more content…
The two that were chosen were ProQuest database and the EBSCOhost database which was under psychology and behavioral science collection. Under ProQuest the word search chosen was “psychopath in men and women” this word search brought up 40 hits while in the second word search on EBSCOhost the words typed in the search bar were “Psychopaths in the courtroom” that pulled up a total of 383 hits. In the final search through EBSCOhost the words to be searched were “Psychopath castration” that popped up 665 hits. Each search consisted of scholarly “peer reviewed” articles that were full text, all being narrowed down to after the year 2006 to 2016. Galileo was a very useful resource in gathering information for my topics which more of these articles have been saved to use for the final research …show more content…
Edens, and Jennifer Cox, (2012) one of the primary focuses for this article is how the labeling of antisocial personality disorder (APD), psychopaths, and sociopaths are made. In addition to how these labels can predict outcoomes and in what courts is it easier to diagnose as mentally ill. To start off their study Edens and Cox gave their surveys to voluntary participants attending the Fifth National Seminar on the Development and Integration of Mitigation Evidence. This was a legal seminar, and many whom attended were attorneys and mitigation specialist. These factors being relevant to their case study and even a necessity in understanding specific events that only people with their experience would know. It is important to address that only 41 forms were turned in out an estimated room full of just at around 100. With these people being their foundation there was one thing that set them apart. Those things being whether their courts had Dubert or Frye jurisdiction in admissibility in evidence. What they found was quit significant. Where the Frye test had made it harder to have evidence admissible compart to Dubert standards. The problem associated with this is that fact that because of this the standards to claim insanity were easier to do with the DSM than by the PCL-R. The DSM is what is more commonly used in Frye Jurisdictions. This evidence shows the unequal advantage of how the simplicity of what jurisdiction and individual is in can show significant impact on