On the Problems of Criminal Psychopathy
Keywords:
antisocial personality, criminal psychopat, criminal mindAbstract
In paper one, the central issues of the psychology of criminal behaviour have been discussed, and that is the problem of adequate diagnosis of a delinquent’s personality.
The latest research on dangerous criminals’ personalities pointed out the inadequacy of existing nosological categories taken from psychopathology, and simply implemented to the population of convicts. Thus, the majority of convicts are being classified into the category of personal disorders by the application of DSM IV criterion (antisocial disorders), by which the premise that all the criminals are psychopats and that all the psychopats are criminals is indirectly accepted.
Robert Hare (Hare, 1998) introduced a new concept of criminal psychopathy as an independent taxon in relation to existing nosological categories, and concluded that psychopathy is the core of criminal personality, but criminal behaviour isn’t the core of psychopathy. Canadian authors (Andrews, 2003), analysing the studies of criminal behaviour within the last two decades, confirmed the conclusion that criminal personality should be predicted on the basis of a set of criminological and personal traits, and not on the basis of clinical variables.
The work presents a suggestion that the criminal person is also made by a specific dysfunction of cognitive abilities, caused by the functioning of the central personal system, which means individual relations between thinking and emotions, that is, thinking and speech.
Therefore, dangerous criminals have criminal personalities and criminal minds. They are criminal psychopaths who are, being such, resistant to any kind of treatment. Prevention is, consequently, related to protective activities of the society against them, as well as the early detection based on the proposed criteria – variables.
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