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They lack conscience and have no empathy for others. Along with having no impulse control, a psychopath is also very callous and unemotional. “...what is missing in this picture are the very qualities that allow human beings to live in social harmony”(Hare 2). Psychopaths have numerous alarming characteristics that may differ from those of a sociopath. Unlike psychopathy, which is present from birth, sociopathy may develop from childhood trauma such as abuse. Therefore, sociopaths can feel…

Why are crimes committed? Most people would say out of greed jealousy and anger. But we all get jealous greedy and angry so why don’t we all kill. The answer to that remains not in the heart, as most people to be, but in the mind. In 2006 the Bureau Justice Center did a survey and what they found shed much light on the mind (or lack thereof) a criminal. They concluded that estimated that 705,600 mentally ill adults were incarcerated in State prisons, 78,800 in Federal prisons and 479,900 in…

Your heart pounds in your chest as you run through the dark woods, trying your best to make it to your car or just to safety. You can feel him gaining on you, the sound of crunching leaves signaling his every move, but your legs just aren’t fast enough. You stumble over a conveniently placed log and fall to the hard ground. The tension builds, the unseen orchestra using more strings. Someone in the theater’s audience screams for you to get up and run. Out of breath, you try to scramble away only…

deciding where to put these criminals. In some cases, they put them in mental institutions instead of prisons in order to keep them detained longer. Even the ones that go to prison have the chance of entering a mental institution afterwards. Dr. Robert Hare is the leading authority…

characterized to be people that are mentally ill and insane. Not only is this deceptive, but it lacks what is so unknown about psychopaths. They are people that walk the streets freely every day, they just acquire different characteristics. The David Hare psychopathy checklist shows that if one possesses a high score from this list because of the amount of traits that match the individual, they are diagnosed with a type of psychopathy. The unique blend of traits…

As stated before, there are counter arguments towards the effectiveness of treatment for psychopaths. One belief as to why treatment does not work for psychopaths is stated by the authors of this study, Harris and Rice (Harris & Rice, 2006). “They believe that the reason for their findings is that psychopaths are fundamentally different from other offenders and that there is nothing ‘wrong’ with them in the manner of a deficit or impairment that therapy can ‘fix’. Instead, they exhibit an…

Robert Hare is well known for his knowledge on psychopathy and he was the one who came up with a list of 20 traits which can be identified as psychopathic, some of which include: “pathological lying, manipulative, lack of remorse and guilt, early behaviour problems…

disclosing the location of his victims’ bodies, he showed no signs of emotion or remorse. [3] Psychopathy is a disorder of personality revealed by a lifelong pattern of antisocial behavior. [4] The Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), created by Robert Hare, helps identify psychopaths. According to PCL-R, among other things, psychopaths are often remorseless of their murders and have a hard time showing empathy.[5] When Gacy gave his interviews he proved he…

Entitled The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, the book was written by a Welsh journalist, Jon Ronson. It was published by Riverhead Books on May 12, 2011 and is comprised of 316 pages. Ronson was born on May 10, 1967 and is notable for his other works including best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, and Them: Adventures with Extremists. In The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, Ronson goes through a series of…

f children, no matter what age, were to steal or harm someone, should the parents go to jail or be tried for it? This is a really interesting debate; most people argue that it is always the parent’s fault. Sure, children are a product of their environment; but this doesn’t always mean that the parents are to blame for what a child may do. Sometimes, children just do not have the ability to learn what is morally right and wrong. Sometimes, develop in such a way that the parents did all they can,…