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.
Authors
- Baizhen Li
Publication Details
- Journal
- Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication Studies
- Published
- 2025-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.61173/0edygh18
- Primary Topic
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00