Psychopathy and predatory violence in homicide, violent, and sexual offences: Factor and facet relations

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-74

  Declercq, Frédéric ^a,b   Willemsen, Jochem ^a   Audenaert, Kurt ^a   Verhaeghe, Paul ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Knowledge Centre Forensic Platform (PFPCG)   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; INTOXICATION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NARCISSISM; PERSONALITY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISONER; PSYCHOPATHY; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL CRIME; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79960843248     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: 20448333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532510X527722     Document Type: Article

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