Hare Psychopathy Checklist

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) The first psychological disorder to be recognized in the field of psychology was psychopathy, which sometimes is known as sociopathy. Psychopathy is a personality disorder, which refers to individuals who display tendencies of antisocial behavior and traits. Some of the behaviors associated with Psychopathy are grandiosity, egocentricity, deceptiveness, shallow emotions, lack empathy, irresponsibility and impulsivity. They also have the tendency to disobey what is considered to be social norms. Individuals labeled as psychopath normally tends to display low conscientiousness when making decisions, might have either too low or too high level of anxiety. Psychopaths have tough personalities that might come across as aggressive and hostile due to the lack social skills. They are also driven by impulse and in some cases they tend to seek for sensation. Individuals with Psychopathy disorders might exhibit manipulative behaviors and they are often associated with…

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…

buried so many bodies in his crawl space that he had ran out of room. He dumped his last five victims bodies into a nearby river. Gacy was discovered when police starting poking around after the disappearance of a young boy named Robert Piest. Police suspected Gacy was involved in the disappearance of Piest when his story had holes. After a second search warrant was issued police found human bones in his crawl space. By the time Gacy had been convicted of murdering 33 people, he had committed…

relationship between the biological factors and behavior of the criminals. Raine’s study has helped other psychologists be able to determine links between violent crimes and brain regions. (Raine, “The Classic Study: Brain Abnormalities in Murderers”) Kent Kiehl is a professor at the University of Mexico, and conducts research on those who are considered to be insane on death row. He has been studying psychopaths for the past years. Kiehl scores his subjects level of psychopathy by using the…

An insight into the PCL-R Psychopathy is a commonly researched yet misunderstood topic/condition that has become increasingly apparent in the court system in the past century. There isn’t much to help one identify this condition in a person, but one tool that has withstood the test of time is the psychopathy checklist-revised (PCL-R). The PCL-R is a list of characteristics used to recognize psychopathy in an individual as well as give an insight into their specific condition. In a court setting…

Psychopathy vs. Sociopathy The words Psychopathy and Sociapathy are used interchangeably to describe a disorder in which a person suffers from a list of incurable mental and emotional characteristics. Many believe both words pertain to the same disorder, and some believe that the two are entirely different. Countless interviews with doctors and diagnosed psychopaths and sociopaths have only succeeded in making the question of whether there is a difference between the two even more of a…

charm and manipulate people solely to get what they want. Psychopaths are people who suffer from the uncommon disorder known as psychopathy. A psychopath is not an amiable person and their personality is composed of many alarming characteristics related to those of a sociopath. They are the way they are because of their brain anatomy and other factors that cause a person to be diagnosed with psychopathy. This disorder affects few people, but it plays a major role in the lifestyles those people…

Initially, the scope of this book seems narrow but opens a broad spectrum of inferences for those in relationships with non-criminal and unidentified psychopaths. The close observations, which are only possible in such a restricted environment as jail or a mental ward, is a testament to the difficulty of accurately identifying a psychopath. They are masters of manipulation, jugglers of interpersonal impressions and weavers of destruction. Psychopaths have no empathy or conscience but often know…

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, juvenile delinquency…” and much more (Bartol & Bartol, 2017). With this list of traits in mind, it is evident that Olson shows patterns of behaviour alike a psychopath. Olson was a delinquent at an early age, starting with theft.…

The author explains that no amount of cash can buy back years chained in the dark. Psychopaths are let of the hook by some people, but others not so much. Bottom line is when psychopaths start committing crimes it is extremely hard to stop them from harming others in the future. With people having multiple thought on this topic it raises multiple ethical problems for our society. These problems include where to put the psychopaths after they are convicted. The Justice System is in charge of…