Few psychological concepts evoke simultaneously as much fascination and
misunderstanding as psychopathic personality, or psychopathy. Typically, individuals with …

Psychopathy is thought by many to be an untreatable disorder. This article puts the treatment
of psychopathy into historical context and reviews research on the treatment of the disorder …

Many programs for offenders with mental illness (OMIs) seem to assume that serious mental
illness directly causes criminal justice involvement. To help evaluate this assumption, we …

Accumulating research suggests that psychopathy can be disaggregated into low-anxious
primary and high-anxious secondary variants, and this research may be important for …

The purpose of this research synthesis was to examine treatment effects across studies of
the service providers to offenders with mental illness. Meta-analytic techniques were applied …

Batterer programs are at a critical juncture, with a handful of experimental program
evaluations showing little or no effect from the prevailing program approach. This finding has …

The utility of psychopathy measures in predicting violence is largely explained by their
assessment of social deviance (eg, antisocial behavior; disinhibition). A key question is …

Objective: National efforts to improve responses to persons with mental illness involved with
the criminal justice system have traditionally focused on providing mental health services …

The term “ability traits” is generally associated with British psychologist, Raymond Cattell,
who distinguished ability traits from dynamic traits (motivations) and temperament traits …

chopathy instruments that are sensitive to change and basic methodological problems in
measuring treatment-related change in offender samples (eg, measurement of variables not …