The PCL-R was designed to discriminate psychopathic individuals from other criminals--a job it does very well--but this does not mean that criminality is essential to the construct of psychopathy.... .. "Several of the 20 items (juvenile delinquency, criminal versatility) are directly related to criminality.
And they have great criminal versatility.
The interviewer "scores" the subject on each of the twenty items — parasitic life style, pathological lying, conning, proneness to boredom, shallow emotions, lack of empathy, poor impulse control, promiscuity, irresponsibility, record of juvenile delinquency, and criminal versatility, among other tendencies — with zero, one, or two, depending on how pronounced that trait is.
These results confirm previous findings on criminal versatility among sexual offenders.
There is also a small but growing body of research highlighting the criminal versatility of sex offenders (e.g. Cockbain and Wortley 2015; Simon 1997, 2000; Smallbone and Wortley 2000, 2004).
Lund gets full marks for most of them, including a lack of remorse, criminal versatility, recidivism, impulsivity, and being manipulative.
