“…A reason for the salience of psychopathy at capital sentencing pertains to its significant predictive validity for broad forms of antisocial behavior. Empirical research furnished significant linkages between psychopathy and conduct problems [6], delinquency [7, 8], substance use and abuse [9], violence [10,11], sexual offending [12][13][14], general offending [15], homicide offending [16][17][18], institutional misconduct [19,20], and recidivism [21,22]. Overall, psychopathy is disproportionately associated with the most serious forms of criminal violence [11,17,18,23,24].…”