Criminal Law and Psychopathy
deficient emotional responses, lack of empathy, and poor behavioral controls, commonly resulting in persistent antisocial deviance and criminal behavior” (104).[footnoteRef:7] This is the definition of psychopathy that will be adopted in this text. An evaluation of the criteria for categorizing psychopathy identifies a certain core set for psychopaths. To begin with, psychopaths have inherently shallow emotions. According to Anderson and Kiehl, the lack of emotion remains one of the key character traits for psychopaths (104).[footnoteRef:8] This is to say that in addition to lack of compassion, they are also depraved of a wide range of social emotions including, but not limited to, embarrassment, guilt,… Continue Reading...
