Psychopathy and violence: a criminological review
ITALIAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY(2017)
摘要
The aim of this article is to analyse, from a criminological point of view, the concept of psychopathy, aetiology, comorbidity, and the classification of psychopathic personalities, as well as their criminal-violent dimension, considering also criminal career and recurring typologies of crimes. In fact, the typical criminal history of psychopathic offender is characterized by a broad criminal versatility and by a high degree of recidivism. Thus, psychopathy is basically discovered among murderers, serial killers, sexual offenders and white-collar criminals. Starting from a review of the most recent and important references on definition aspects and the existing link between psicopathy and violent behaviors, the article also tackles the complicated issues of culpability and prison treatment of psychopaths.
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