TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Psychopathy and pathological violence in a criminal career: a forensic case report JO - Aggression and violent behavior A1 - DeLisi, Matt A1 - Drury, Alan J. A1 - Elbert, Michael J. SP - e101521 EP - e101521 VL - 60 IS - N2 - Extreme criminal careers illustrate the effects of multiple forms of psychopathology especially the confluence of psychopathy, multiple externalizing behaviors, and homicidality. Here, we present a forensic case report of Mr. Z, an offender whose antisocial conduct and criminal justice system involvement spans the late 1940s to the present, whose criminal career dovetails with significant events in correctional history in the United States in the middle to late 20th century, and who was a multiple homicide offender while incarcerated in both state and federal prisons. The case report method provides rich qualitative data to supplement quantitative findings on psychopathy, career criminals, the severe 5%, and life-course-persistent offender prototypes. Given the extraordinary behaviors and psychopathology of the most severe offenders, forensic case reports are useful to refine criminological theory and research, and inform correctional practice.

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LA - en SN - 1359-1789 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2020.101521 ID - ref1 ER -