The Scale of Evil
| Category | Criteria |
|---|---|
| 01 | Those who kill in self-defense and do not show psychopathic tendencies |
| 02 | Jealous lovers who, though egocentric or immature, are not psychopathic |
| 03 | Willing companions of killers: aberrant personality — probably impulse-ridden, with antisocial traits |
| 04 | Kill in self-defense, but had been extremely provocative towards the victim |
| 05 | Traumatized, desperate people who kill abusive relatives and others (like to support a drug habit) but lack significant traits. Genuinely remorseful. |
| 06 | Impetuous, hotheaded murderers, yet without marked psychopathic features |
| 07 | Highly narcissistic, not distinctly psychopathic people with a psychotic core who kill people close to them (jealousy an underlying motive) |
| 08 | Non psychopathic people with smoldering rage who kill when rage is ignited |
| 09 | Jealous lovers with psychopathic features |
| 10 | Killers of people who were “in the way” or who killed, for example, witnesses (egocentric but not distinctly psychopathic) |
| 11 | Psychopathic killers of people “in the way” |
| 12 | Power-hungry psychopaths who killed when they were “cornered” |
| 13 | Killers with inadequate, rage-filled personalities who “snapped” |
| 14 | Ruthlessly self-centered psychopathic schemers |
| 15 | Psychopathic “cold-blooded” spree or multiple murders |
| 16 | Psychopaths committing multiple vicious acts |
| 17 | Sexually perverse serial murderers, torture-murderers (among the males, rape is the primary motive with murder to hide the evidence; Systematic torture is not a primary factor) |
| 18 | Torture-murderers with murder the primary motive |
| 19 | Psychopaths driven to terrorism, subjugation, intimidation and rape, (short of murder) |
| 20 | Torture murderers with torture as the primary motive but in psychotic personalities |
| 21 | Psychopaths preoccupied with torture in the extreme, but not known to have committed murder |
| 22 | Psychopathic torture-murderers, with torture their primary motive |
