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Finding hard and fast definitions of psychopathy and sociopathy is difficult. It seems to vary according to the context as well as the writer.

My wife is reading a book in which a psychologist analyses school shooters, and he says that psycopaths lack empathy, but aren't necessarily sadists. It's when you get the combination of psycopathy and sadism that you have a really dangerous person on your hands.

However, the proportion of school shooters who are psycopaths is actually quite low. Virtually all of them have some kind of mental illness.