Social Theory The Psychopath

This paper uses research on PCL-R testing using labelling theory and the general crime theory as an integrated approach for examining the psychopath. Findings indicate hypocrisy plays a significant factor in the formation of psychopaths by causing the psychopath to increase potency of ideology from deviancy as social reactions towards labels intended to confront, isolate, punish, or deter, act to reinforce the ideology to deviancy. Whereas general crime theory focuses on the actions of the psychopath as having to do with ideology, the labeling theory helps explain how deviants develop into no longer caring for that which is not their deviance, or to lose desire to prevent themselves from being deviant.