ABSTRACT
Clark (1997) writes about sociopathy, malingering, and defensiveness. It is important to understand how criminals feign and malinger symptoms of psychological disorders as well as simply lie about their behavior and thoughts. Meloy (1988) asserts that malingering is seen as obtaining a clear advantage for the person. Travin and Protter (1984) viewed malingering as a “fully conscious sociopathic adaptation.” Cleckley (1976) and Doren (1987) have emphasized the sociopath’s propensity for untruthfullness and insincerity; they viewed such deception as one of the defining characteristics of the disorder of malingering. Yochelson and Samenow (1976) also view lying as a fundamental pattern for sociopathic individuals and as an essential precondition of their criminality.
