Understanding female offenders: psychopathy, criminal behavior, assessment, and treatment

Front Cover -- Understanding Female Offenders -- Understanding Female Offenders -- Copyright -- Contents -- Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction -- The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R): Our Independent Measure -- The Rorschach: Our Dependent Measure -- Caveats for Understandi...

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Hauptverfasser: Smith, Jason M. (VerfasserIn), Gacono, Carl B. (VerfasserIn), Cunliffe, Ted B. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Academic Press 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Front Cover -- Understanding Female Offenders -- Understanding Female Offenders -- Copyright -- Contents -- Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction -- The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R): Our Independent Measure -- The Rorschach: Our Dependent Measure -- Caveats for Understanding the PCL-R &amp -- Rorschach -- Two Examples -- Understanding Female Offenders -- References -- 2 - Understanding Bias in Diagnosing, Assessing, and Treating Female Offenders -- Science and the Scientific Method -- Logic &amp -- the Scientific Method -- Logical Fallacy -- Political Correctness -- Clinical Judgment, Implicit Bias, &amp -- Cognitive Heuristics -- Confirmation Bias -- Illusory Correlation -- Suggestibility -- Misinformation Effect -- Racial Bias -- Gender Bias -- A Case of Bias -- Myths about Female Offenders and Psychopaths -- Myth #1: Psychopathy, Sociopathy, and Antisocial Personality Disorder are Equivalent -- Myth #2: Male and Female Psychopaths are Equivalent -- Myth #3: Female Psychopaths do not Exist -- Myth #4: Trauma Causes Psychopathic Symptoms and Criminal Behavior in Women -- Myth #5: Female Offenders are Treated more Harshly than Men by the Criminal Justice System -- Myth #6: Women are not Violent and the Reports of Increased Violence in Women is a Fallacy -- Myth #7: Women Commit Crimes to Support Their Children -- Myth #8: Female Psychopaths are More Amenable to Treatment -- Myth #9: Women do not Commit Sexual Offenses -- Myth #10: Female Offenders Get Less Attention in the Media than Male Offenders -- Summary and Discussion -- References -- 3 - Understanding Antisocial and Psychopathic Women -- Sociopathy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, &amp -- Psychopathy -- Summary -- Hysteriac -- Summary -- Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) -- PCL-R Studies with Females -- Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) -- Summary
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ISBN:9780128225851