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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Types of Offense among the Cleckley Psychopaths

Jaana Haapasalo

Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40351 Jyväskylä, Finland.

The Cleckley psychopath is superficially charming and convincing in his behavior but also unreliable and callous. These personality characteristics imply that he/she may be prone to deceive and manipulate others. In the area of criminality, this may mean apropensity to fraud-like offenses. The present paper tested the argument by comparing types of offense committed by psychopaths and nonpsychopaths. The Psychopathy Checklist was used for psychopathy assessments. In a sample of 92 male offenders, the percentage of the Cleckley psychopaths convicted for fraud-like offenses was higher than among the other offenders. The results were discussed with respect to the problem of circular conclusions. It was argued that a person-oriented approach could be used to examine the relationships between psychopathy and criminal behavior.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 38, No. 1, 59-67 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X9403800106
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