PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Paul Bernardo, Psychopathy Checklist, Clifford Olson

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400
• Professor: craigbennell

Document Summary

Psychopathy and serial killers: most serial killers are psychopaths, but most psychopaths are not serial killers most psychopaths are not offenders, serial killers are often described as psychopathic (ted bundy, clifford olson, john gacy, Ken bianchi, paul bernardo: most killers are not psychopathspsychopaths must hit a certain score in order to be clinically psychopath. Amongst the rate of serial killers, the base rate is that 90% of them are psychopaths. Psychopaths in the general population (know for exam) Base rate of psychopaths in the general population: 1% of population are psychopaths. Base rate of prison population: 10-25% of them are psychopaths. There is a range because we have two prison system and the less serious offenders have less psychopaths while the more serious offenders have more psychopaths. Psychopaths as killers of police officers (know for exam) Offenders that killed police officers are 44% psychopaths. What is psychopathy: a personality disorder characterized by: An arrogant, deceitful interpersonal style: deficient affective experiences.