ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how psychopathy, most often measured using the Psychopathy Checklist, is an important risk factor, for example, as one of the most important items on the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide-Revised that accurately assesses sex offenders' risk to commit future sexual crimes. It discusses how individuals scoring high in psychopathy pose special challenges in treatment. The chapter describes how the assessment of psychopathy is useful in the risk assessment and management of sex offenders and discuss some of the challenges posed by treatment participants who score high on psychopathy. It explores two men who participated in a prison-based treatment program for sex offenders. The two men differ greatly in their antisocial tendencies and psychopathy, which is reflected in their assessed risk to violently reoffend. The first individual has atypical sexual interests and is high in mating effort, but low in psychopathy, whereas the second individual is not sexually atypical or particularly high in mating effort, but is high in psychopathy.
