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The current chapter provides an overview of the research, clinical, and practitioner experiences and academic disciplinary sources of motivation for this book. Psychopathy is a useful heuristic device for understanding the expanse of criminality from normative offending to the extremity of criminal violence. Academic disciplines have differential interest in psychopathy ranging from hostility in the case of sociology to embrace in psychology. The lay public has considerable interest in the psychopathy construct but inconsistently and often incorrectly applies the construct where it is not relevant and declines to invoke it when it is appropriate. An overview of the subsequent chapters is provided.
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DeLisi, M. (2016). Why Psychopathy as Unified Theory of Crime?. In: Psychopathy as Unified Theory of Crime. Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46907-6_1
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