A psychological assessment test often used to evaluate psychopathy in Canadian criminal cases is unreliable and prone to unconscious bias on the part of expert witnesses, according to research from ...

A study shows the flaws in using scores from psychopathy tests for decisions in court, but it fails to address the influence on juries of cultural portrayals of psychopaths.

Twenty-six years after Robert Dixon Jr. went to prison for acting as an accessory to murder, friends and family swear that he is a new man, one... Can A Test Really Tell Who's A Psychopath? In ...

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After 26 years in prison, he was due for a parole hearing. In California, before a "lifer" like Dixon appears before the parole board, a state psychologist must first evaluate whether he poses a risk ...