This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. In doing so, it offers a coherent theoretical and developmental analysis of socialization and its vicissitudes, and the role played in socialization by the crime-relevent genetic traits of the child and the skills and limitations of the primary socializing agents, the parents.

This volume presents a scholarly analysis of psychopathic and sociopathic personalities and the conditions that give rise to them. In doing so, it offers a coherent theoretical and developmental analysis of socialization and its vicissitudes, and the role played in socialization by the crime-relevent genetic traits of the child and the skills and limitations of the primary socializing agents, the parents.