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An assessment rating scale designed for use with incarcerated male offenders for the assessment of traits and behaviors underlying the clinical construct of psychopathy.
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The Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL; Hare and Frazelle 1980) was a preliminary research rating scale developed by Robert Hare and his colleagues for the assessment of the clinical construct psychopathy in criminal populations. The psychopathy construct measured in the PCL was largely influenced by the clinical observations of Hervey Cleckley regarding the psychopathic personality and associated antisocial behaviors (Cleckley 1976). The PCL is the precursor to the widely used and well-validated assessment scale called the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL-R; Hare 1991, 2003). Use of the PCL has been replaced by the updated and revised PCL-R for research and clinical purposes. However, the PCL is still viewed as a scale that...
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Brazil, K.J., Forth, A.E. (2016). Hare Psychopathy Checklist. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1079-1
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