PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homicide, Dangerous Offender, Psychological Abuse
Document Summary
Psychopathy: a personality disorder defined by a collection of interpersonal, affective and behavioural characteristics, including manipulation, lack of remorse or empathy, impulsivity, and anti-social behaviours. Sociopathy: a label used to describe a person whose psychopathic traits are assumed to be due to environmental factors. Apd, sociopathy and psychopathy are often used interchangeably, however although they are related to one another, they are distinct. Sociopath: referred to people who has problems with or refused to adapt to society, sociopaths manifest similar traits to psychopaths, but develop these traits due to the environment (poor parenting) Psychopaths: predisposed to a temperament that makes them difficult to socialize. Research finds that psychopathy pays a role in a diverse range of criminal cases. Adversarial allegiance: the tendency for forensic experts to be biased towards the side (defence or prosecution) who hired them. Characteristics that help inhibit aggression and violence are relatively ineffective in psychopaths: empathy, close emotional bonds, interactional inhibitions.
