Forensic mental health professionals' perceptions of psychopathy: A prototypicality analysis of the comprehensive assessment of psychopathic personality in Sweden

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 405-417

  Sörman, Karolina ^a,b,c   Edens, John F ^c   Smith, Shannon Toney ^c   Svensson, Olof ^b   Howner, Katarina ^a   Kristiansson, Marianne ^a   Fischer, Håkan ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b National Board of Forensic Medicine   (Sweden)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; CAPP; Content validity; Forensic; Practitioners; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRIME; CRIMINOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRIME; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925830302     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000072     Document Type: Article

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