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This section discusses the pattern of behaviors that may indicate an individual meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Although psychopathy is not a formal diagnosis, the lack of remorse, narcissism and low autonomic arousal may indicate overlapping symptoms and behaviors with ASPD, and only 14–25% of people diagnosed with ASPD meet the criteria of psychopathy. The section also examines the similarities between predatory violence and psychopathy.
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Psychopathy is indicative of individuals who manifest characterological deficits exhibiting manipulative, deceptive, self-centered, callous behavior and who lack empathy, guilt and remorse. The prevalence of psychopathy in the general population is believed to be approximately 1% and 10–15% among the prison population (Hare, 1991, 2003). It is often associated with antisocial personality disorder, but it is currently not a formal diagnosis in the DSM 5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
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Hoffer, T., Hargreaves-Cormany, H., Muirhead, Y., Meloy, J.R. (2018). The Relationship Between Violence, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy. In: Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3_8
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