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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Final Assessment: Diaries Entries - Jasper HARTE 1st Diary Entry: Ma’s perspective (His first encounter with the Little Chinese Seamstress) Explanation Paragraph: As the warped wooden door creaked open, we were exposed to a mass of informality, splintering wooden beams, laden with dust that had gathered over time, watched cautiously over us, as we ambled wearily into the unknown. The distant murmur of a sewing machine resonated, as it reached our ears, humbled by this subjection to primitive…

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…

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…