A Methodological Appraisal of the Application of the Hare Psychopathy Checklists in Forensic Setting
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Psychopathy is seen as a personality disorder defined by a cluster of interpersonal affective lifestyle and antisocial traits and behavior including grandiosity, egocentricity, deceptiveness, shallow emotion, lack of empathy or remorse, irresponsibility and impulsivity and tendency to violate social norms. The paper examined the use of the PCL-R in other climes. Investigation revealed that 90% of cases in the United States were decided using the PCL-R both at the state and federal courts. The PCL-R is also used in expert witnessing and testimony and also used to deal with charges of kidnapping, attempted murder, sexual assault, rape, robbery, long term offenders and dangerous offenders. Investigation also revealed that the PCL-R is used in sentence cases, parole hearing and death penalty sentencing in Canada. The paper therefore recommends that the Hare psychopathic checklist (PCL-R) should be validated and adapted in Nigeria and be used in the criminal justice system as a research instrument for research purposes, and a psycho diagnostic tool for assessment of psychopathy among forensic and clinical patients and measurement of deviant, irresponsible and impulsive behavior among new entrant into the Nigerian police force during selection processes. Keywords: Hare Psychopathy, Checklist, Forensic Setting, Criminal, Nigeria.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".