Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a constellation of affective,
interpersonal, lifestyle and antisocial features whose antecedents can be identified in a …

Background Children with callous‐unemotional (CU) traits are at high lifetime risk of
antisocial behavior. It is unknown if treatments for disruptive behavior disorders are as …

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

While it is well established that individuals with psychopathy have a marked deficit in
affective arousal, emotional empathy, and caring for the well-being of others, the extent to …

Typically, problems in offender management surface when offenders are considered for
release from an institution in which they were initially placed because of some violent …

In this review, we focus on two major influences on current conceptualizations of
psychopathy: one clinical, with its origins largely in the early case studies of Cleckley, and …

The development of the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R; RD Hare, 2003) has
fueled intense clinical interest in the construct of psychopathy. Unfortunately, a side effect of …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

Children with co-occurring conduct problems and callous-unemotional (CU) traits show a
distinct pattern of early starting, chronic, and aggressive antisocial behaviors that are …

Diathesis-stress models of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders have dominated
theorizing about etiology for over three decades. More recently, with advances in our …