Comprehensive Assessment Of Psychopathy
Understanding the construct of psychopathy has been one of the issues at the forefront of psychiatric research (Cleckley, 1983; Miller & Lynam, 2015). The assessment of psychopathy has been used by researchers and clinical professionals to examine offending behaviour and the risk of recidivism. The most frequently used and validated diagnostic tool for assessing psychopathy is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 2003). The PCL-R has been described as the “gold standard assessment of psychopathy” (Acheson, 2005). However, the PCL-R has been challenged for its focus on antisocial and criminal behaviour at the expense of affective and interpersonal traits of psychopathy. For this reason, the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic