What is it about?

the book is about how some types of political strategy influence behaviour in people with antisocial personality disorder

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Why is it important?

It's an unusual argument which has some implications that may feel uncomfortable

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This book supports a view that people who break the criminal law are 'different' from those who don't in terms of personality and social class. This is debateable view; but there is increasing evidence for this argument, based on international epidemiology. the question is what we should do about it; Perkins suggests a kind of control via politics; I think people who break the rules need therapeutic interventions.

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This page is a summary of: The Welfare Trait: How State Benefits Affect Personality By Adam Perkins. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. £20.00 (pb). 201 pp. ISBN 9781137555281, The British Journal of Psychiatry, April 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.116.187757.
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