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"Inside A Psychopath's Brain: The Sentencing Debate"

This post was written by Stephanie WestAllen: "This is the second of a three-part series by Barbara Bradley Hagerty on the brains of psychopaths. I posted about the first article in the series yesterday: Neuroscientist who is descendant of Lizzie Borden considers his predisposition for serial killing.

Excerpt from today's:

Kent Kiehl has studied hundreds of psychopaths. Kiehl is one of the world's leading investigators of psychopathy and a professor at the University of New Mexico. He says he can often see it in their eyes: There's an intensity in their stare, as if they're trying to pick up signals on how to respond. But the eyes are not an element of psychopathy, just a clue..."

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Source: idealawg, 30 June 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).