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2005.07.17.

Prof. David J Cooke, Douglas Inch Centre and Glasgow Caledonian University
"Psychopathy as an Important Forensic Construct: Past, Present and Future"

The association between the personality disorder we now term psychopathy and criminal behaviour has long been recognised. For example, in the book of Psalms the traits of pride, vanity, and manipulativeness were linked with extreme violence. Empirical research over the last two decades has suggested that psychopathy is linked to risk of reoffending in general, and violent reoffending in particular. The validity of this view will be examined: It will be argued that it is necessary to move towards a greater understanding of the mechanisms by which these traits may be criminogenic, i.e., drive individuals to offend. The limitations of current measures of the disorder will be described. Proposals for the development of improved measures will be discussed based on the analyse of large data sets. It will be argued that there is a need for a comprehensive, clinically informed, measure of psychopathy. Preliminary results from a programme attempting to develop such a measure will be described.