Jon Ronson

The Kingpin, The Conman, and The Adulteress.

Mental illness comes and goes. It can get better with medication. Tony is a psychopath. That doesn’t come and go. It is how the person is.

“The Hare Checklist,” said Essi. “The PCL-R.”

“The Hare Checklist,” said Essi. “The PCL-R.”
I looked blankly at her.
“It’s a kind of psychopath test designed by a Canadian psychologist called Bob Hare,” she said. “It’s the gold standard for diagnosing psychopaths. The first item on the checklist is Glibness/ Superficial Charm.”

was, albeit quite a lot more so.

“They make up only twenty-five percent of the prison population but they account for sixty to seventy percent of the violent crime that happens inside prisons. They’re few in number but you don’t want to mess with them.”
“What percentage of the non-prison population is a psychopath?” I asked.
“One percent,” said Essi.

The Robert Hare Checklist

“manie sans delire”

Bob said it’s always a nice surprise when a psychopath speaks openly about their inability to feel emotions. Most of them pretend to feel.

“I don’t know,” he replied. “I didn’t care. It wasn’t my problem. I won the fight. No room for second place.”