Citation

Sohn JS, Raine A, Hong YO. Homicide Stud. 2022; 26(3): 308-323.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/10887679211028879

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study tests the hypothesis that psychopathy is more associated with instrumental homicides than mixed and reactive homicides, and explores relationships between Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) facet/item scores and different forms of homicide: instrumental (n = 130), mixed (n = 103), and reactive (n = 219) homicides. Instrumental homicides scored higher on facet 2 (p < .01) but scored lower on facet 4 (p < .1) compared to reactive homicides, whereas no facet scores differed between mixed and reactive homicides. Among the items of facet 2 (affective), remorselessness (item 6), and callousness (item 8) were predictive of instrumental homicide.

Language: en

Keywords

callous/lack of empathy (item 8); facet 2 (affective); instrumental/planned homicide; lack of remorse or guilt (item 6); mixture of reactive and instrumental homicide; PCL-R; reactive/emotional homicide