Contents: Introduction. Part I: Crime and Violence: Who Are the Perpetrators and Why Do They Do It? The Psychopathology of Crime. An Animal Model: The Bull Terrier. A Classification of Criminal Types. Part II: The Genetic and Evolutionary Background. Crime From an Evolutionary Perspective. Genes and the Mind. The Heritability of Criminality. Part III: The Psychopathic Personalities. The Psychopath: An Introduction to the Genus. The Classification of the Psychopathies. A Theory of Primary Psychopathy. Primary and Secondary Psychopathy. Further Contributions of R.D. Hare. Theories of Frontal Lobe Dysfunction. Other Theories of Psychopathy. Part IV: The Sociopathic Personalities. The Sociopath or Common Criminal. The Question of Race. Preventing Antisocial Personality.
David T. Lykken
"...this is a fascinating volume. It is just the kind of book that
should be at the center of debates on public policy--consistently
scientific and free from preconceptions or wishful thinking."
—American RenaissanceHOLD FOR PUBLICATION OF REVIEW!!!"...a
sophisticated, tightly integrated work with multiple overlapping
themes. This is a book that brings new perspective to a
well-travelled literature and which yields fresh rewards with
repeated readings. It is illuminating, entertaining, and at times
outrageous. In short, it has the earmarks of a classic."
—Psychological Inquiry"...original, variegated, intelligent,
scholarly, and delightfully written....this book is dense and
nutritious; few works are based on bodies of literature as diverse
as those covered here, and there are fewer still that achieve the
conceptual coherence that Lykken achieves. [He] is an expert in
this long-term field, and his book is an encyclopedic
compendium."
—Aggressive BehaviorAfter reviewing the literature on psychopathy,
this book documents the claim that sociopaths, not psychopaths, are
responsible for most crime.
—National Institute of Justice"Lykken's newest book on the
antisocial personalities rivals and then surpasses the classic by
Cleckley by combining hard-nosed science, as skillfully as Sagan,
with keen observations on humans in social settings garnered over
some 40 years of experience with sociopaths. His theory about the
'primary psychopath' and his (usually) origins will irritate,
agitate, and partially explicate, depending on the reader's
previous exposure to sociology, behavioral genetics, and welfare
policy. Lykken's challenges to conventional and received wisdom are
both serious and entertaining. Your attitude toward crime and
violence will NOT be the same after reading this book as it was
before you started."
—Irving I. Gottesman, Ph.D.
Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrics, University of
Virginia"This is the most exciting book on psychopathology I've
read for years. The analysis is incisive and deep; the style is
engaging; the synthesis of the author's encyclopedic knowledge in
diverse areas -- clinical psychology, sociology, psychometrics,
genetics, psychophysiology -- is creative and powerful. This book
defines the research task for the foreseeable future."
—Paul E. Meehl, Ph.D., LP
Regents' Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, Member Emeritus,
Minnesota Center fo"David Lykken, the Dean of the field of
antisocial behavior, provides a badly needed, comprehensive, and
insightful analysis of the complex causes of the marked and
continuing increase in crime and violence. This highly readable
book offers its own recommendations that are likely to stimulate a
major political debate as to how to solve this critical societal
problem. It is one of those rare books that presents an
authoritative overview for professionals in the field, yet is
written in a clear and entertaining style that makes it invaluable
for the educated layperson."
—Don C. Fowles, Ph.D.
The University of Iowa"Your book on the antisocial personalities is
wonderful....The topic is major, the writing is marvelously clear,
and the argument is correct....your book is the high water mark in
our efforts to develop a conceptual understanding of the
issue."
—Robert Hogan
Hogan Assessment Systems
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