The effect of the psychopathy checklist - revised in capital cases: Mock jurors' responses to the label of psychopathy

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 878-891

  Cox, Jennifer ^a   DeMatteo, David S ^a   Foster, Elizabeth E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; OFFENDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; CRIMINALS; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE;

EID: 78649686839     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.958     Document Type: Article

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