Richard Kuklinski Iceman
“If I think about what I’ve done, it would hurt me, so I don’t think about it… If I had a choice, well, you have said we all have choices, that’s true, but at the time, I didn’t seem to have one. If I could, I would have liked to be different than what I am. I would have liked to have had a better outlook on life.. but I can’t change yesterday” (Carlo, 2007).

According to Robert Hare, Psychopathy is a personality disorder which consists of behaviors and personality traits that most of society views as negative (Hare, 1993). Characteristics of psychopathy include emotional, interpersonal, and behavioral characteristics such as emotional detachment, callousness, irresponsibility, impulsivity, and disregard for society’s rules and rights of others (Hare, 1996). Psychopathy was originally used to define all cases of personality disorders, but now psychopathy is seen as a more severe form of Antisocial Personality Disorder (Maddux, J., & Winstead, B., 2008). This means that psychopathy has a prevalence rate of less than three times that of Antisocial Personality in both civil and criminal populations (Hare, R., & Neumann, C., 2009).
Psychopathy Checklist The first assessment instrument used to measure psychopathy was the Psychopathy Checklist developed by Robert Hare in 1980 and was revised (PCL-R) in 1991 and again in 2003 (Hare, 1993). The psychopathy checklist is the most accepted instrument in assessing psychopathy by both psychologists and the criminal justice system. The PCL-R can also be used to foresee recidivism, violence and treatment outcome with criminals and is most commonly used in forensic assessments (Hare, R., & Neumann, C., 2009). The PCL-R consists of a 20 item scale and is conducted as a semi-structured interview as well as using case information – such as looking at a prison or psychiatric file -