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Psychopathy and Biosocial Criminology

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Psychopathy as Unified Theory of Crime

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The chapter examines psychopathy and its relation to biosocial criminology. The chapter advances that psychopathy facilitates emerging biosocial explanations of antisocial behavior. Several features of psychopathy are suggestive of a biosocial etiology. The disorder emerges in childhood in the form of callous and unemotional traits which are usually coupled with conduct problems. The depth of these traits implicates neuropsychological problems relating to emotional relatedness, morality, and the ability to learn or regulate behavior after receiving punishment. Over time, psychopathic traits remain relatively stable and accentuate antisocial behavior through adolescence and adulthood. Due to the extremity of their criminal conduct and the chilling display of their personality, there is a notion that psychopathy is importantly heritable. For instance, some of the core characteristics of psychopathic personality, such as low fear and autonomic functioning, suggest a physiological etiology, and over the years, researchers have explored the biological and biosocial undergirding of psychopathy.

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DeLisi, M. (2016). Psychopathy and Biosocial Criminology. 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_6

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