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 ...

Robert L. Roberson III was scheduled for execution in Texas on October 16. He won a stay, but the case isn't over. He was convicted of the murder of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis. The ...

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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A made-in-Canada test to detect whether a criminal is a “psychopath” is outdated, unreliable, and a poor predictor of recidivism, says a University of Toronto researcher who is calling for an end to ...

Psychopaths who have been convicted of murder are able to associate violent and pleasant thoughts with greater ease than other psychopaths or non-psychopathic murderers, concludes a recent study in ...

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 ...