Psychopathy Could Use a Little Skepticism

摘要

Victims of crime, particularly violent crime, often experience a brute otherness that lacks explanation. Sterile economic analysis estimates that the monetary damage from crime in the United States exceeds $1 trillion (Buckholtz et al. 2010). Preeminent proponents for the utility of psychopathy contend that psychopaths make up 1% of the population of the United States and 25% of the prison population (Hare 2006). Assuming these statements as true, “It is no wonder that psychopaths are so often characterized as a scourge of contemporary urban society” (Gillett andHuang 2013, 3).