Describing, diagnosing, and naming psychopathy: How do youth psychopathy labels influence jurors?

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 487-510

  Boccaccini, Marcus T ^b   Murrie, Daniel C ^a   Clark, John W ^c   Cornell, Dewey G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURT; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; EXPERT WITNESS; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PERSONALITY; PRISON; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOPATHY; PUNISHMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIME; DECISION MAKING; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE;

EID: 51349089095     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.821     Document Type: Article

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