Do you agree that with one you always get the other and vice versa?
My advice is to define more narrow terms psychopathy (antisocial disorder or something else) and violence (physical or some other form)
Thankyou for the advice Tomislav ,good point to chose one area of psychopathy and one form of violence. It narrows it down a lot and causes a good starting point.
Tomislav made a good point. Violence can be physical and non-physical.
In my opinion is almost every psychopath showing violent behavior,
but not all violent people are psychopaths.
Anne-Marie Leistico has a nice meta analysis on this topic in Law and Human Behavior. She gives specific estimates based on over 15,000 individuals scored on the PCL-R. I believe it was published ion 2008.
I'm looking at _The Sociopath Next Door_ by Martha Stout, PhD.
4% of the US population (1 / 25 people) are thought to be "sociopaths," or "psychopaths,: or to have "antisocicial disorder." (acc, to DSM IV)
Stout cites studies by Robert Hare and others to estimate only 20% of the criminals in US prisons are sociopaths. This 20% is overrepresented in the 50% of crimes considered the most serious and violent (extortion, armed robbery, treason, etc.)
She cites several articles and book chapters by Robert Hare about psychopathy and crime.
Not necessarily. You can have psychopathy without violence i believe.
Cooke and Michie (2001), for example, excluded the anti-social/criminal/violence factor of the PCL-R, because they believe that this feature does not define psychopathy itself; is just a consequence of the core-features of psychopathy.
More recently, Gao and Raine (2010), make a preliminary model in the approach to a subgroup of psychopathy without criminal records. For unsuccessful psychopaths, brain structural and functional abnormalities, predispose this subgroup of psychopaths to more risky decision making and less sensitivity to environmental cues predicting danger and capture. These deficits are also hypothesized to make them more prone to poor behavioral controls and antisocial behavior using physical violence, resulting in detection, arrest, and conviction. Rather, intact or even enhanced brain, serves as factor that protect successful psychopaths
from conviction, and allow them to better achieve their life goals.
Prof. Jim Fallon has a model of violent psychopathy which relies upon 3 key factors to push the subject to harmful behavior. He says that one needs the 'at risk' genetic markers that give the individual the propensity for such acts, the neurological 'wiring', so to speak, that is inherent in subjects with psychopathy, and; a traumatic event that will give them motivation to act violently.
I'm a PhD student in Criminology and I am doing my thesis on successful psychopathy. **Sorry in advance for the mistakes - I'm a french canadian :)
- First of all, you've got to consider the different forms of aggression, generally we consider a dual model: impulsive/affective aggression & predatory/ aggression.
References that could be useful on that topic : Hanlon et al., 2013; Kempes et al., 2005; Levi, Nussbaum, & Rich, 2010; McEllistrem, 2004; Meloy, 2006; Weinshenker & Siegel, 2002
- Psychopathy appears to be related to both forms of violence, but is uniquely associated with predatory violence. More specifically, predatory violence appears to be associated with factor 1, whereas affective violence would be associated with factor 2
References that could be useful: Flight & Forth, 2007; Reidy et al., 2007, (Cornell et al., 1996; Williamson, Hare, & Wong, 1987; Woodworth & Porter, 2002
- Second, I would disagree with the idea that violence is necessary associated with psychopathy. As it was said, psychopathy concerns only a handful of indivudals, as opposed to antisocial disorder in general. You should also check the topic of successful psychopathy which appears to be differently associated with violence (Gao and Raine, 2010). In the case of successful psychopaths, one hypothesis is that these individuals would be able to escape detection by using more covert methods to obtain what they want
Hope it helps!
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