Hare Psychopathy Checklist

Dictionary of affect and language, (Whissell & Dewson, 1986) which assigned a score in regards to pleasantness and intensity. “The DAL’s analysis of emotion also captures intensity, a key element of emotionality in language potentially related to psychopathy” (Hancock et al., 2013, p.109) Using the Wmatrix linguistic analysis and the Dictionary of Affect and Language, the transcript of each man’s narrative is evaluated, and after the speech patterns of each individual have been digitally…

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…

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,…

The innocent creature from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein just might not be as innocent or sane as one might think. The creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is without a doubt a psychopath or even a sociopath when looking at the details in his lifestyle, and the violent acts he committed throughout the novel. Furthermore, when analyzing the creature from the novel it demonstrates multiple psychopathic and sociopathic qualities, such as something like his impulsive behavior or how aggressive, it…

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…

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…

explain criminal behavior. One theory, psychopathy, combines factors such genes and environment to explain deviant behavior. Psychopathy is used to explain some, but not all criminal behavior and has been widely accepted and researched by the criminal justice, psychology, and other science fields. Psychopathy and crime are closely linked to each other and can be explained by many different factors based on genetics and psychosocial approaches, and although psychopathy does not set in stone a…

psychopath’s are that they look just like everyone else, therefore could be anyone. There are a lot of characteristics in a psychopath. Dr. Robert Hare created a checklist to determine certain traits in a psychopath. One underlying characteristic in all psychopaths is severe emotional detachment. This is harder to detect than the characteristics listed in Hare’s checklist. Early behavioral problems and impulsivity relate to sever emotional detachment in several ways. For early behavioral…

In today’s world there is a much more scientific and social understanding to identifying sociopaths and psychopaths. Compared to times like the Middle Ages and the Renaissance there is a much more concrete definition for these distinct personalities. Understanding what we now know, sometimes when you learn history it really makes you wonder if some people in the past were textbook defined sociopaths or psychopaths. It surely played a role back then as we see noticeable characteristics such as…