Psychopath ( Turvey , 2008)

1. Psychopath (Turvey, 2008) • A social predator who often charms and manipulates his or her way through life. Psychopaths are completely lacking in conscience and in feelings for others, taking what they want and doing as they please without the slightest sense of guilt or regret.

2. Primary (true) psychopaths • Primary psychopaths are usually not volcanically explosive, violent, or extremely destructive. They are more apt to be outgoing, charming, and verbally proficient. They may be criminals but many are not. (non-violent)

3. Criminal Psychopaths • Criminal psychopath => to identify those primary psychopaths who engage in repetitive antisocial or criminal behavior. • Our interest area

4. More terms on psychopaths • Secondary psychopaths commit antisocial or violent acts because of severe emotional problems or inner conflicts. (violent) • Media often refers to these persons as “psychopathic killers”.

5. Examples of psychopaths • The late Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. => forged documents and tried dozens of occupations no high school graduation

6. Derma • U.S. navy with forged documents => in danger of exposure via security check • He obtained the credentials of a Dr. French, who held a Harvard Ph D in psychology. • Fake suicide => leaving his clothes near a pier and a note “this is the only way out” • Became Dr. French => obtained a dean of philosophy in a Canadian college, successfully taught psychology courses.

7. Derma • Friendship with a physician, Joseph Cyr, learned the basics of medicine from their conversation. • Borrowed and duplicated his documents. • Participated in a navy as Dr. Cyr. • During the Korean War, he was dispatched to the place. He had no experience, but he saved three emergency patients and other 16 patients in a night.

8. Derma • Successful, so his story was broadcasted. Dr. Cyr watched it. • Exposed. => discharged from the navy. • An example of a psychopath who did not engage in serious or lifelong crime.

9. Behavioral descriptions • Charming and verbally fluent • Higher on intelligence tests • Psychopaths are not mentally disordered by traditional standards. • Other traits

10. Offending Patterns of Criminal Psychopaths • Responsible for more than ½ of deaths of law enforcement officers. • Likely to be more violent, brutal, unconventional, and sadistic. • More likely than other offenders to derive pleasure from both the nonsexual and sexual suffering of others.

11. Murders and Assaults nonpsychopaths psychopaths Revenge or retribution, or during drinking Toward men who are strangers Rapists – “nonsexual motivation” such as anger, and sadism. They rapes as an expression of hate and anger. • During domestic dispute • Extreme emotional arousal • Toward women they know well • Rapists – sexual motivation

12. Sadism in children rapes • The sadistic offender finds pleasure in hurting the child. Sexuality becomes an expression of domination and anger. The victim’s fear, torment, distress, and suffering are important and exciting to the sadistic pedophile…… His intention is to hurt, degrade, defile, or destroy the child. Sexuality and power are in the service of anger. (Grandiose sense of self)

13. A sexual psychopath – Ted Bundy • Within his arm in a cast – attract women. • Attack the women. • While the women were unconscious or semiconscious, he would then commit gross sexual acts, including anal assault. Bundy bit various body parts, sometimes biting off a victim’s nipples. He killed the victims by strangulation. He mutilated and decapitated their bodies. He would leave the bodies in secluded spots and return to them after several days to commit necrophilic acts such as ejaculating into the mouth of a disembodied head. • He could exercise complete control over their corpses.

14. Use of the PCL-R • Gacono contends that the PCL-R is an essential tool in studying, treating, and managing offender populations.

15. Uses and Benefits of the PCL-R • Prescreening • Identify high-risk offenders for treatment and management purposes • Protection of staff • In maintaining security protection of non-psychopathic inmates • Assessment of community risk upon release and public safety.

16. Criminal Justice Implications • Ithas been proposed that the PCL-R be used to increase public safety: - In sentencing violent offenders - In parole decision-making - to preventively detain - to screen for treatment - to enhance supervision levels

17. Psychopathy in Criminal Law • What have the courts decided regarding how psychopathy can be used in these different matters of criminal law? - witness credibility - Competency to stand trial - Habitual offender laws - Sexual psychopathy/ Sexual predator laws - Death penalty - Juvenile transfer to adult courts

18. Psychopathy in Civil Law • Child custody • Civil commitment • Civil suits

19. discussion • Do you agree that the PCL-R is a promising tool to enhance public safety? • What are the ethical issues in the application of psychopathy to legal and correctional realms? • The relevance between psychopathy policy and the influencing factors in making policies we learned still now.