title: [Relevance of "psychopathy"-- concepts from the Hare measure for preventive detention].
abstract: Preventive detention can be ordered, if a person falls back into crime repeatedly and shows a "disposition to commit substantial offences". In the trial and at subsequent points of time expert opinions supporting this personal disposition have to be obtained. However up to now it is not clear on which basis such statements should be made. On the basis of a retrospective investigation of the author's own expert opinions the paper discusses the relevance of Hare's psychopathy concept for opinions on criminal disposition.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Zentrum für Nervenheilkunde der Universität Rostock.
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Habermeyer
authors.forename: Hanns Jürgen
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kunert
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Herpertz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003415:Crime / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology*; D005104:Expert Testimony; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000379:methods; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D011330:Prisons / Q000379:methods*; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D011678:Punishment / Q000523:psychology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies