Barbie
03-17-2005, 10:50 PM
A person who willfully does damage without remorse. "Such individuals are insensitive to other's needs, and unable to anticipate the consequences of their behavior... characterized by absence of guilt and anxiety normally accompanying an antisocial act." New Columbia Encyclopedia 4th edition, 1975
Antisocial personality disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy)
Here's a test for you:
Diagnostic criteria
Interpersonal dimension
Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose sense of self-worth
Pathological lying
Conning/manipulative
Lack of remorse or guilt
Shallow affect
Callous/lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Affective dimension
Need for stimulation/-proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Poor behavioral controls
Early behavioral problems
Lack of realistic, long-term goals
Impulsivity
Irresponsibility
Juvenile delinquency
Revocation of conditional release
Behavioral dimension
Promiscuous sexual behavior
Many short-term marital relationships
Criminal versatility
Score 0 if the trait is absent, 1 if it is possibly or partially present and 2 if it is present. The item scores are summed to yield a total score ranging from 0 to 40 which is then considered to reflect the degree to which they resemble the prototypical psychopath. A score higher than 30 supports a diagnosis of psychopathy. Forensic studies of prison populations have reported average scores of around 22 on PCL-R; control "normal" populations show an average score of around 5.
A note of caution: the test must be administered by a trained mental health practitioner under controlled conditions for it to have any validity. (in other words, Muddy or Mac)
So, Karla Homolka (http://www.explore-biography.com/biographies/K/Karla_Homolka.html) is being release from prison in July of this year after sweet ass deal of a plea bargain.
She's going to kill again. I just hope she's not living in my neighbourhood.
Karla's story (and Paul Bernado) (http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/justice/article.jsp?content=20050321_102168_102168)
Antisocial personality disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy)
Here's a test for you:
Diagnostic criteria
Interpersonal dimension
Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose sense of self-worth
Pathological lying
Conning/manipulative
Lack of remorse or guilt
Shallow affect
Callous/lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Affective dimension
Need for stimulation/-proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Poor behavioral controls
Early behavioral problems
Lack of realistic, long-term goals
Impulsivity
Irresponsibility
Juvenile delinquency
Revocation of conditional release
Behavioral dimension
Promiscuous sexual behavior
Many short-term marital relationships
Criminal versatility
Score 0 if the trait is absent, 1 if it is possibly or partially present and 2 if it is present. The item scores are summed to yield a total score ranging from 0 to 40 which is then considered to reflect the degree to which they resemble the prototypical psychopath. A score higher than 30 supports a diagnosis of psychopathy. Forensic studies of prison populations have reported average scores of around 22 on PCL-R; control "normal" populations show an average score of around 5.
A note of caution: the test must be administered by a trained mental health practitioner under controlled conditions for it to have any validity. (in other words, Muddy or Mac)
So, Karla Homolka (http://www.explore-biography.com/biographies/K/Karla_Homolka.html) is being release from prison in July of this year after sweet ass deal of a plea bargain.
She's going to kill again. I just hope she's not living in my neighbourhood.
Karla's story (and Paul Bernado) (http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/justice/article.jsp?content=20050321_102168_102168)