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Psychopathy, antisocial personality, and suicide risk.
Journal of abnormal psychology - 1 Aug 2001
Verona E, Patrick C J, Joiner T E
Abstract excerpt
H. Cleckley (1976) maintained that psychopaths are relatively immune to suicide, but substantial evidence exists for a relationship between antisocial deviance and suicidal acts. This study was the first to explicitly examine suicidal history among psychopathic individuals as defined by R. D. Hare's (1991) Psychopathy Checklist--Revised (PCL-R). Male prison inmates (N = 313) were assessed using the PCL-R and...
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