Understanding the violent personality: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, & sociopathy explored
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Antisocial Personality, Sociopathy and Psychopathy
People who cannot contain their urges to harm (or kill) people repeatedly for no apparent reason are assumed to suffer from some mental illness. However, they may be more cruel than crazy, they may be choosing not to control their urges, they know right from wrong, they know exactly what they're doing, and they are definitely NOT insane, at least according to the consensus of most scholars (Sam...
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عنوان ژورنال: Foresic Research & Criminology International Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2469-2794
DOI: 10.15406/frcij.2019.07.00267