Concept information
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law and courts
law and society
psychology and law
forensic assessment in civil and criminal cases
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criminology
law and society
psychology and law
symptoms and disorders relevant to forensic assessment
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law and courts
law and society
psychology and law
symptoms and disorders relevant to forensic assessment
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law and society
psychology and law
forensic assessment in civil and criminal cases
violence risk assessment
Preferred term
psychopathy
Definition
- The psychological construct that describes immoral and antisocial behavior. The modern conception of psychopathy was put forth by Hervey Cleckley in his work The Mask of Sanity (1941). [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychopathy]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/psychopathy
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