Psychopathy and crimes against humanity: A conceptual and empirical examination of human rights violators

Robert D. Hare, Elizabeth León-Mayer, Joanna Rocuant Salinas, Jorge Folino and Craig S. Neumann

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2022, vol. 81, issue C

Abstract: There is a dearth of empirical data on the contributions of personality, psychopathology, and psychopathy to terrorism and its actors. Because of a fortuitous set of circumstances, we had access to a sample of men convicted of crimes against humanity (CAH) committed during the Pinochet regime, each rated by expert clinicians on the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R). We also had PCL-R ratings for samples of general offenders and community participants.

Keywords: Crimes against humanity; Human rights violators; Terrorism; Psychopathy; PCL-R; SRP-SF; Four-factor model; Latent profile analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101901

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