The Criminological Legacy of Hare’s Psychopathy Construct: A Heuristic for Pathological Offending
摘要
Robert Hare’s psychopathy construct and suite of measures derived from the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R) are the most influential approaches in criminological research and criminal justice system practice. In 1996, Robert Hare published an influential article about psychopathy as a clinical construct whose time has come. Here, nearly three decades after that seminal article, we revisit the substantial criminological legacy of Hare’s psychopathy construct specifically its association with pathological offending, its linkages to violence perpetration, and the global noncompliance of psychopathic offenders within the psychiatric, forensic, and criminal justice systems. For these reasons, Hareian psychopathy is an important heuristic for understanding pathological antisocial behavior.