I have been putting together a literature review on psychopathy. If anyone happens to have some articles they suggest or could send to me, I would appreciate it. I am looking, in particular, at the connection between psychopathy and offending behavior/violence/aggression. Thank you!
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I recently stumbled upon this article - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.694212/full
It is an excellent comprehensive narrative review that shows empirical data gathered over the last 5 years on the connection between empathy and neuroscience among violent and psychopathic offenders.
It's an overall great article well worth the read, yet I thought that you'll find this part quite insightful if you don't have the time to read the rest:
"Psychopaths are divided into two categories: passive and aggressive. Passive psychopaths are parasitic toward others and exploit them. Often, they may have trouble with the law but manage not to suffer serious consequences and punishments. Psychopaths of this type mostly commit what are referred to as “white-collar crimes,” i.e., economic crimes that do not involve the use of threats and physical violence. Aggressive psychopaths, on the other hand, commit serious crimes; especially those who are characterized by sexual sadism can commit serial murders of a sexual nature and, at the basis of their crimes, there seems to be the need for continuous stimulation provided by sexual arousal. The two main traits that distinguish psychopathic behavior are the inability to feel a normal degree of empathy and affection toward other people and the repeated implementation of antisocial behaviors."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284274893_The_Dark_Tetrad
@Bill Sandersplease see the link below 👇
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059069/
Hi @Bill Sanders , you could check out this meta on psychopathy and homicide. It seems that articles that included more violent-homicides (i.e. sexually motivated homicides) had offenders that rated higher on the PCL-R. Overall homicide offenders had moderate signs of psychopathy.
I am attaching an article which may be helpful to you, @Bill Sanders. It's a bit old (1998), but the authors are Hemphill, Hare, and Wong. They found that the correlation between PLC-R and recidivism was .27 for general recidivism, .27 for violent recidivism, and .23 for sexual recidivism. Of course, correlation does not imply causation but certainly this has implications for recidivism and violence risk prediction.
You could check out this article (2020)
LINK: https://scholar.google.gr/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=1&q=psychopathy+and+crime+and+discipline+childhood&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DhM_PpmpS5sAJ
a very interesting read on the role of ACEs and psychopathic features on juvenile-18 criminal offenders.