A clinical definition: Psychopathy
is an important clinical construct that has been studied for more than 200
years and has exploded in recent years as a guiding explanatory concept for a
range of antisocial behaviors across a range of populations and subgroups. In
this review essay, I advance that psychopathy is the purest and the best
explanation of antisocial behavior. Indeed, psychopathy is the unified theory
of crime because it mirrors the elemental nature and embodies the pejorative
essence of antisocial behavior, accommodates dimensional and categorical
conceptualizations and examinations of antisocial behavior, facilitates the
study of antisocial phenotypes over the life span, accommodates the general
overlap of antisocial behaviors among diverse populations, and facilitates emerging
biosocial explanations of antisocial behavior.
(source: http://yvj.sagepub.com/content/7/3/256.abstract )
Editor’s notes:
In plain language, a “psychopath”
when viewed in the context of a murder and, especially,
a violent or gruesome murder, is a
person who kills for whatever purpose with impunity and without a twinge of
conscience. The comparative degree of
violence is, also, indicative of a
psychosis that is without doubt. The
psychotic killer, void of feelings for
what he has done or is about to do, is
fully capable of repeated offences. In
the case of the Muslim jihadist, it is
clear that those involved are without conscience, capable of repeated offences, and hopeful for additional opportunities to
strike the worst degree of fear into persons whom, they believe, need to be
exterminated. The fact that a Muslim
jihadist can hack to death dozens of victims and go about his “duty” as if it
were a matter of daily business, tells
us that we are dealing with mentally disturbed killers that need no tolerance
or societal protections.

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