ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the diagnosis, assessment, forensic relevance, and treatment of antisocial personality disorder (APD) and its more severe subtype, psychopathy, will be discussed. In previous reviews, these two terms have, in general, been equated, but in the present chapter they will clearly be separated, with APD being referred to in terms of its DSM-IV-TR criteria (American Psychiatric Association 2000), while ‘psychopathy’ is reserved for persons who meet other, specific criteria described by Hare and others (Hare, Hart, and Harpur 1991; Hare 1999). The terms ‘antisocial syndromes’ or ‘antisocial disorders’ will be used to refer to a broad range of antisocial behaviors and conditions not limited to APD or psychopathy.
