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Psychopathy and the Life-Course

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Psychopathy as Unified Theory of Crime

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The current chapter examines psychopathy over the life-course. The chapter examines how psychopathy facilitates the study of antisocial phenotypes over the life span. Originally applied to adults, psychopathy has increasingly been used to study antisocial behaviors and personality traits in adolescents and children. Research has shown strong conceptual overlap between psychopathy in adults and youths at the behavioral, cognitive and emotional, interpersonal, and physiological levels. If psychopathy is a stable, enduring feature of antisocial persons, it is likely to emerge as a central construct in the longitudinal study of offending over the life span one with utility for understanding maladaptive behaviors among adults, adolescents, and children.

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DeLisi, M. (2016). Psychopathy and the Life-Course. 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_4

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