Constructing ‘the Psychopath’

The Psychopath as Pimp

Although the study of psychopathy has become a significant area for research in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to examining the role of psychopathy in offenders who live off the avails of prostitution (i.e., “pimps”). It may be argued that this dearth in the literature is surprising given that psychopathy is defined by a unique set of interpersonal and affective charact...

Inside the Mind of a Psychopath

September/October 2010 A A r O n G O O d m A n T he word “psychopath” conjures up movie images of brutal, inexplicable violence: Jack Nicholson chasing his family with an ax in The Shining or Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, his face locked into an armored mask to keep him from biting people to death. But real life offers another set of images, that of killers making nice: Ted Bundy as law s...

The Sexual Psychopath Laws

The sexual psychopath.

EEG abnormalities in psychopath and non-psychopath violent offenders.

UNLABELLED Previous EEG studies attempted to examine violent behavior as homogeneous construct. Up to date, there is no other research studying Low-Resolution Brain Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA) technique in psychopath offenders. OBJECTIVE To find electrophysiological differences specifically related to the psychopathy construct and independent of the violent behavior. The current inves...