CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Juvenile Delinquency, Reduced Affect Display, Pathological Lying
15 Mar 2018
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Is not in dsm-v: apd always includes criminal behavior, not all psychopaths are criminals. 3 types of psychopaths: primary psychopath (true psychopath, psychopathy is innate at birth, secondary psychopath, psychopathy results from severe emotional problems, dissocial psychopath, psychopathic behavior is adopted based on peer culture. Categorical vs. continuum: categorical model: yes/no, pcl-r cutoff of 30 = psychopath, arbitrary, dimensional model: measured on a continuum, everyone has some characteristics to greater or lesser degrees. Psychopathy is strongly linked to crime: prevalence, hare (1998): 1% in general population, 15-25% in adult prison population. It is important risk factor for recidivism: e. g. , serin and amos (1995): psychopaths 5x more likely for violent recidivism, quinsy et al. (1995): 80% of psychopathic sex offenders recidivated within 6 years vs. 20% of non-psychopathic sex offenders. Autonomic nervous system: autonomically and cortically under-aroused, deficient in avoidance learning.
