After its publication in 1991, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) became established as the “gold standard” for determining the extent to which an individual possesses psychopathic ...

A defendant stands in the dock. An expert describes them as a “psychopath”. In an instant, one word threatens to eclipse their history, circumstances and the crime itself. In Ireland, England and ...

Does an academic's use of legal threats to stop a critical paper from being published subvert the peer review process, which is fundamental to modern scientific research? A leading psychopathy ...