It's not really my area, sorry. I've seen humorous comparisons drawn between very younger children and psycho/sociopaths (http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-study-reveals-most-children-unrepentant-sociop,2870/) (Onion article, please do not take seriously, even if it does contain a grain of truth!) - perhaps something is missing in early childhood and these future psycho/sociopaths just aren't given the resources to progress beyond infancy and be appropriately socialized. If I had to guess, I would say improper/inadequate attachment early on, abuse/neglect, unstable home life, the usual. Of course, I'm sure there are kids whose parents do everything right but they're still a bit off, so who knows.
Terri Moffitt is a well-known criminologist who studies sociobiological stuff (sorta - lots of hormone level things), and she's co-authored an article that suggests that there's a genetic link for psychopathy (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00393.x/full), but they use antisocial behavior and callous-unemotional traits as a measure for psychopathy, which... I don't know, I struggle with. "Antisocial behavior" is a pretty fucking vague term and has been use to describe everything from internalizing behavior to violent outbursts. It's kinda a catchall for "not right."
Other than that, I see a pretty slim smattering of articles about risk factors for socio/psychopathology (sorry to keep using that garbled term, but I'm really not sure what people are calling it these days), and nothing very recent. I found one from 1989 but I can't access the PDF, and I don't like citing articles based on the info in the abstract, because I want to see the methodology.
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Date: 18/7/11 23:06 (UTC)Terri Moffitt is a well-known criminologist who studies sociobiological stuff (sorta - lots of hormone level things), and she's co-authored an article that suggests that there's a genetic link for psychopathy (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00393.x/full), but they use antisocial behavior and callous-unemotional traits as a measure for psychopathy, which... I don't know, I struggle with. "Antisocial behavior" is a pretty fucking vague term and has been use to describe everything from internalizing behavior to violent outbursts. It's kinda a catchall for "not right."
Other than that, I see a pretty slim smattering of articles about risk factors for socio/psychopathology (sorry to keep using that garbled term, but I'm really not sure what people are calling it these days), and nothing very recent. I found one from 1989 but I can't access the PDF, and I don't like citing articles based on the info in the abstract, because I want to see the methodology.