Draw about nature of psychopathic behavior

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Characteristics of Psychopaths

In this week's Discussion, you considered the complexity of psychopathy. Despite uncertainty about how to define and classify psychopathy, there are firm characteristics that are associated with psychopaths. In your resources this week, you are introduced to the work of Robert Hare, one of the foremost psychopathy experts. Among other things, Hare created a way to measure criminal psychopathy. His tool for measurement, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), is a list of characteristics consistently associated with psychopaths that may be useful in identifying and evaluating characteristics of psychopaths. Widely used to classify psychopaths in the criminal justice system, the PCL-R is not a perfect instrument and is not the only instrument of measure for psychopathy. It is, however, a means to discover patterns of features associated with psychopaths.

Assignment (1-2 pages):

Question 1: Briefly describe the criminal behavior in the case study.

Question 2: Explain whether or not the individual in the case study exhibits the characteristics of a psychopath, and why or why not.

Question 3: Based on the information in the case study and this week's other resources, explain at least one conclusion you might draw about the nature of psychopathic behavior.

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