Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy: Diagnostic dilemmas in classifying patterns of antisocial behavior in sentencing evaluations

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 333-351

  Cunningham, Mark D ^a   Reidy, Thomas J ^b  

^a Sargent House ^*  (United States)

^b Sargent House   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INJURY; INTELLIGENCE; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOPATHY; RECIDIVISM; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MENTAL COMPETENCY; PERSONALITY TESTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031682187     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199822)16:3<333::AID-BSL314>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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