Psychopathy is the Unified Theory of Crime

By M. Delisi. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Positive Childhood Experiences (PCE): Cumulative Resiliency in the Face of Adverse Childhood Experiences (2020, background): “Similarly, psychopathy has multiple co-occurring facets (DeLisi, 2009), as does the temperament-based theory suggested in the current study (DeLisi & Vaughn, 2014).”
Early starters: Which type of criminal onset matters most for delinquent careers? (2013, background): “Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by deficits in interpersonal, affective, behavioral, and lifestyle areas and is an important correlate of conduct problems, delinquency/crime, and juvenile/criminal justice involvement (DeLisi, 2009; Ribeiro da Silva, Rijo, & Salekin, 2012; Vaughn ”
Personality, antisocial behavior, and aggression: A meta-analytic review (2011, background): “When personality is incorporated into the study of crime from a criminological perspective, it most commonly takes the form of broad, multidimensional constructs such as psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder (DeLisi, 2009; Vaughn, Howard, & DeLisi, 2008).”
Violent Video Games, Delinquency, and Youth Violence (2013, background): “…having a preference for violent video games is correlated with delinquency and violence even when considering the effects of a battery of correlates of delinquency including psychopathy—a construct whose relation to crime is so robust it has been likened to a unified theory of crime (DeLisi, 2009).”
Introduction and validation of Psychopathic Personality Traits Scale (PPTS) in a large prison sample (2016, positive): “…a range of criminal/antisocial and non-criminal/antisocial activities (e.g., Boduszek & Debowska, 2016; Boduszek et al., 2015; Cooke & Michie, 2001; DeLisi, 2009; McCuish et al., 2015; McCuish, Corrado, Lussier, & Hart, 2014; Skeem & Cooke, 2010a, b), items were cast to reflect knowledge/skills…”