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Psychopathy and homicide
- Introduction
- Psychopathy
- Homicide
- Methodology
- Results
- Woodworth and Porter (2002)
- Nestor, Kimble, Berman, and Haycock (2002)
- Laurell and Dåderman (2005) and (2007)
- Porter and Woodworth (2007)
- Serafim, de Barros, Valim, and Gorenstein (2009)
- Häkkänen-Nyholm and Hare (2009)
- Juodis, Woodworth, Porter, and Brinke (2009)
- Häkkänen-Nyholm, Repo-Tiihonen, Lindberg, Salenius, and Weizmann-Henelius (2009)
- Weizmann-Henelius, Putkonen, Grönroos, Lindberg, Eronen and Häkkänen-Nyholm (2010)
- Putkonen, Weizmann-Henelius, Repo-Tiihonen, Lindberg, Saarela, Eronen, and Häkkänen-Nyholm (2010)
- Laajasalo, Salenius, Lindberg, Repo-Tiihonen and Häkkänen-Nyholm (2011)
- Cope, Ermer, Gaudet, Steele, Eckhardt, Arbabshirani, Caldwell, Calhoun, and Kiehl (2014)
- Discussion
- How many murderers are psychopaths?
- What are the most common features of the victims of psychopaths that commit murder?
- What are the most common offense features of psychopathic murders?
- What are the most common features of the psychopaths that commit murder?
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
Abstract
This chapter presents the results of a systematic review of the state of the literature on psychopathy and homicide offenders. Specifically, this review identified and summarized all original empirical studies published on this topic from January 1941 to June 2017 and addressed key questions regarding the prevalence and characteristics of psychopaths who commit homicide. This review indicates that a considerable amount of knowledge has been gained from the 13 empirical studies conducted on psychopathic murderers, but there are also several gaps in our understanding of these dangerous offenders that have not been addressed in the literature.
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