Psychopathy and the Death Penalty: Can the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised Identify Offenders Who Represent “A Continuing Threat to Society”?

By J. Edens, J. Petrila, Jacqueline K. Buffington-Vollum. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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1. D. DeMatteo
2. J. Edens

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1. D. DeMatteo
2. J. Edens

Citations in the corpus

• The role and relevance of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in court: A case law survey of U.S. courts (1991-2004). (2006, methodology): “In this case, as well as the two cases that follow, testimony with the potential to be highly detrimental to the defendant was “cloaked in the guise of science” (Edens et al., 2001, p. 460) yet not actually based on empirical data on the PCL–R.”