Do we need to treat psychopathy like psychiatry in criminal law?

This manuscript reviews the differences between psychiatry and psychopathy, as well as why modern laws have different punishments for psychiatric patients compared to normal people and then expresses the rationality of differentiating punishments for psychopaths in the legal system under contemporary research on the brain and genes, and discusses the serious consequences this behavior may bring.

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Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
Published
2025-04-21
DOI
https://doi.org/10.61173/0edygh18
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Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
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Do we need to treat psychopathy like psychiatry in criminal law?

Baizhen Li
Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
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Do we need to treat psychopathy like psychiatry in criminal law?

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Abstract

This manuscript reviews the differences between psychiatry and psychopathy, as well as why modern laws have different punishments for psychiatric patients compared to normal people and then expresses the rationality of differentiating punishments for psychopaths in the legal system under contemporary research on the brain and genes, and discusses the serious consequences this behavior may bring.

Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication StudiesVol. 1(2)
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Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
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