CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychopathy, Mental Disorder, Homicide

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

1% of the population are psychopaths, over 300 000 in canada, over 3 million in us. 20% of inmates are psychopathic, 6500 in canada: pclrs are used to measure the degree of a psychopathy. Slide 1: sometimes for a long period of time, incapacitation is believed to be the only way to deal with a psychopath, psychopath is a label used to describe individuals to have a degree of a violent history. Past violent behaviour often leads to future violent behaviour: there is a proven biological link to psychopathy. Scientists don"t have a very good understanding to the brain. Brain activity still remains a mystery: there is no evidence of a causal connection of biology and psychopathy. Slide 2- cultural and political significance: the us supreme court says: there is a short term affect between violence in media and future violence.