The PCL–R and capital sentencing: A commentary on “Death is different” DeMatteo et al. (2020a).

Robert D. Hare, Mark E. Olver, Keira C. Stockdale , Craig S. Neumann, Andreas Mokros, Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Eddy Brand, Jorge Folino, Carl Gacono, Nicola S. Gray, Kent Kiehl , Raymond Knight, Elizabeth Leon-Mayer, Matthew Logan, J. Reid Meloy 16, , Sandeep Roy, Randall T. Salekin, Robert J. Snowden, Nicholas Thomson, Scott Tillem, Michael Vitacco, and Dahlnym Yoon 1 Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia 2 Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan 3 Saskatoon Police Service, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 4 Department of Psychology, University of North Texas 5 Department of Psychology, University of Hagen 6 Department of Psychology, Yale University 7 Ministry of Justice, The Hague, Netherlands 8 Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National University of La Plata 9 Asheville, North Carolina, United States 10 Department of Psychology, Swansea University 11 Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico 12 Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States 13 Department of Psychology, Brandeis University 14 HALO Forensic Behavioural Specialists, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 15 Forensic Psychological Corporation, San Diego, California, United States 16 Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego 17 San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, San Diego, California, United States 18 Department of Psychology, University of North Texas 19 Department of Psychology, University of Alabama 20 Department of Psychology, Cardiff University 21 Departments of Surgery and Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University 22 Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Psychology, public policy and law

• Publication date

  2020-11-01

• Fields of study

  Law, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1037/law0000290
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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