Psychopathy is a serious personality disorder that defined by both emotional detachment and antisocial behavior. According to Ashley S. Hampton, factors that include the psychopathy are impulsivity, lack of responsibility and remorse after hurting, exposing himself in dangerous situations, having violence and aggressive behaviors, failure to conform to social norms... These factor related behaviors are important for the court decision to evaluate the person’s future criminal behavior. The previous research according to from the Heilbrun (1979-1982-1990) studied to understand the that how IQ moderates the relation between psychopathy and violent offending. The research showed that individuals who are high in psychopathy and exhibit
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(n=700) and Phoenix, Arizona (n=654). The age range of the participants for this study was 14 to 18 years old with the individuals who are on intelligence, psychopathy, and self-reported offending at their initial interview and at 36 to 84 months later. They gathered two factors of data groups which they included the psychopathy scores with the income and aggressive offending. In factor 1 data, they collected scores based on the involving social and affective features such as the selfish, merciless, and exploitative use of others. In factor 2 they collected the data based on the antisocial lifestyle. Additionally, in this research the general intellectual ability had been scaled by measuring the intellectual ability of the vocabulary ad matrix reasoning subtest of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence. Additionally, during the research period of time, participants had been asked if they had been involved any of the crime within the past 6 months for the 36 months follow-up and within the past 84 months follow-up. The collected crime information had been divided into two group which they are , aggressive crimes which are involving interaction with any armed robbery, assaulting and income generating crimes involved in financial gain such as stealing using cards …show more content…
The results showed that high level of psychopathy was related to high levels of offending, however, highest level of offending are evinced among youth with relatively higher levels of psychopathy and comparatively higher
(n=700) and Phoenix, Arizona (n=654). The age range of the participants for this study was 14 to 18 years old with the individuals who are on intelligence, psychopathy, and self-reported offending at their initial interview and at 36 to 84 months later. They gathered two factors of data groups which they included the psychopathy scores with the income and aggressive offending. In factor 1 data, they collected scores based on the involving social and affective features such as the selfish, merciless, and exploitative use of others. In factor 2 they collected the data based on the antisocial lifestyle. Additionally, in this research the general intellectual ability had been scaled by measuring the intellectual ability of the vocabulary ad matrix reasoning subtest of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence. Additionally, during the research period of time, participants had been asked if they had been involved any of the crime within the past 6 months for the 36 months follow-up and within the past 84 months follow-up. The collected crime information had been divided into two group which they are , aggressive crimes which are involving interaction with any armed robbery, assaulting and income generating crimes involved in financial gain such as stealing using cards …show more content…
The results showed that high level of psychopathy was related to high levels of offending, however, highest level of offending are evinced among youth with relatively higher levels of psychopathy and comparatively higher