Assessing Psychopathy in Forensic Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Validating the Comprehensive Assessment of the Psychopathic Personality-Institutional Rating Scale (CAPP-IRS)

The co-occurrence of schizophrenia and psychopathy (and their relationship with violence) is complex. Research has found positive correlations between schizophrenia and psychopathy in custodial settings (Cote and Hodgins, 1990; Moran and Hodgins, 2004), in psychiatric samples (Gray et al., 2003), and, to a lesser extent, in community settings (Ragsdale and Bedwell, 2013), as well as negative correlations (Hart and Hare, 1989; Hildebrand and de Ruiter, 2004; Pham and Salopp é, 2010). It appears that a minority of schizophrenic subjects have psychopathic traits; however, in forensic and carceral settings, the opposite occurs.
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