March Hare

psychopaths are identified. Through the use of his book, The Mask of Sanity, Checkley recalled his countless interviews with psychopaths. He created his own list of 16 symptoms that he observed from his encounters. His checklist of symptoms strongly mirrors Hare 's and includes many of the same identifying factors. This checklist consists of an overview of symptoms that help identify a psychopath. This does not mean that one must meet every requirement, but one must have many if not most of…

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…

when there isn’t one. With a high score comes a combination of characteristics that associate with violence, as proven by correlation like the one above, but a low score simply displays that the characteristics aren’t as established. Thus Robert D. Hare can make the conclusion that “a high score may imply a high risk, but a low score does not necessarily imply low risk” in his paper Psychopathy as a Risk Factor for…

Cornell professor of communication Jeff Hancock and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, Michael T. Woodworth and Stephen Porter conducted a well-known study on the language of psychopaths, “A growing set of research suggests that subtle patterns in word choice can reveal underlying cognitive and emotional processes” (Hancock, Woodworth, & Porter, 2013, p.103) Using the Wmatrix linguistic analysis and the Dictionary of Affect and Language, evaluated the speech patterns of convicted…

of six years Gacy murdered 33 young men and boys and buried most of their bodies in his Cook County, Illinois home, his youngest victim being 14 years old. Gacy was a psychopathic serial killer. John Wayne Gacy Jr was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17, 1942. Gacy’s father, an abusive alcoholic drunk, would constantly beat and belittled him, sometimes without reason. Gacy’s father would often call him an “overweight sissy.” Gacy fared no better in school. Due to a congenital heart…

or conscience but often know how to feign these qualities that otherwise keep the world a safe place. Many of these individuals endlessly blame momentary circumstances and lifelong victimhood, much of which they can fabricate with terrifying acuity. Hare warns of psychopaths frequently obtaining early release from jail or prison and them being both feared and trusted by fellow prisoners, and guards. They make and keep friends when necessary, live by their own rules, and spin other people on…

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…