Psychopathy

<div>Introduction to the volume&nbsp;</div><div>Part I – Diagnosing psychopathy. Practices, case studies, and practical concerns</div><div>Chapter One: Introductory chapter</div><div>Chapter Two: What it means to be diagnosed as a psychopath</div><div>Chapter Three: The uses of the construct of psychopathy in the USA (indicative title)</div><div>Chapter Four: The uses of the construct of psychopathy in UK (indicative title)</div><div>This chapter will discuss the uses and utility of psychopathy as a construct for policy and clinical practices within the UK context. He will outline and analyse the use of psychopathy in British and commonwealth jurisdictions, with an emphasis upon cases where it has been raised as a mitigating factor for the death sentence.</div><div>Chapter Five: Antisocial personality disorders and preventive sentencing in New Zealand&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter Six: The use of the notion of psychopathy within the legal and treatment practice in Croatia&nbsp;</div><div>Part II – The plausibility of the construct and the validity of psychopathy: psychometric and philosophical issues&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter Seven – Introductory chapter</div><div>Chapter Eight – Psychopathy as a scientific kind: Epistemic usefulness, metaphysical underpinnings, and kind construction&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter Nine – Capturing the complexity of psychopathic personality disorder: Recent developments in the assessment of the disorder&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter Ten – The state of the art of neuropsychological studies of psychopathy</div><div>Chapter Eleven – Psychopathy: Neuro-hype and its consequences&nbsp;</div><div>References</div><div>Chapter Twelve – Psychopathy and the issue of existence</div><div><br></div><div>Part III – Is psychopathy a mental illness?</div><div>Chapter Thirteen – The illness status of psychopathy: between biological functions and norms&nbsp;</div><div>Chapter Fourteen – The medicalisation of psychopathy</div><div>Chapter Fifteen – Sameness in darkness: Gender and psychopathy</div><div>Chapter Sixteen – Psychopathy and societal values</div><div>Chapter Seventeen – Psychopathy and public values</div><div>Conclusion of the volume</div>