After its publication in 1991, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) became established as the “gold standard” for determining the extent to which an individual possesses psychopathic ...

Psychopathy remains a central focus within forensic psychiatry, influencing the assessment, management, and treatment of individuals with severe personality ...

A defendant stands in the dock. An expert describes them as a “psychopath”. In an instant, one word threatens to eclipse ...

Does an academic's use of legal threats to stop a critical paper from being published subvert the peer review process, which is fundamental to modern scientific research? A leading psychopathy ...

Can you predict if someone will kill? It's a question that is heavily debated among psychologists, criminologists and law enforcement professionals in an attempt to stop these gruesome crimes before ...