Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder

Running head: PSYCHOPATHY AND ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
Psychopathy and anti-social personality disorder
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Anti-social personality disorder.......................................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Psychopathy refers to the evidenced mental illness or disorder within a particular
individual of the society (Venables, Hall & Patrick, 2014). It is mainly a personality disorder and
the characteristic feature of psychopathy is that of a persistent form of antisocial behavior. It is
found to be complemented by the attitudes of remorse, empathy, egoistical and disinhibited traits
of the individual. Although no psychological institutions have sanctioned a formal definition of
psychopathy, the characteristics of this mental disorder are found to be aligned with the issue of
criminal justice. The purpose of this paper is to understand the concept of psychopathy. To this
extent, it has attempted to analyze the question if psychopathy constitutes a form of neuro-
development or mental disorder. There are evidences which suggests that psychopathy is linked
to certain specific abnormalities in the brain structure. According to Wygant et al. (2016), most
of the violent crimes are committed by the male members of the society who are suffering from
anti-social personality disorder. The thesis mentioned by Raine has been comprehensively
analyzed within this assignment so that the various features as advocated in this theory can be
analyzed.
Anti-social personality disorder
Adrian Raine was one of the most well-known spokesperson on the issue of psychopathy
and that of anti-social personality disorder. Such anti-social personality disorder is considered to
be existing when the individual has a persistent and pervasive disregard for anything related to
the social norms, the issue of morality and ethics and that of the feelings of the other individuals
of the society (Anderson et al., 2014). Individuals found to be suffering from such anti-social
personality disorder have no problem with exploitation of the others in a harmful manner for