Not every psychopath is a criminal — Robert Hare's research documents a distinct pattern of "corporate" or white-collar psychopathy, where the same core traits (charm, willingness to exploit others, lack of guilt) operate inside a legitimate organizational structure instead of outside the law. Rather than physical violence, the tools are office politics: taking credit for others' work, undermining rivals through subtle sabotage, and rising through manipulation of coworkers rather than through actual competence.
Industrial psychologist Paul Babiak's research, cited extensively by Hare, found these patterns show up in ordinary corporate settings more often than most organizations recognize, partly because the same traits that make someone dangerous to colleagues — confidence, charisma, a willingness to say whatever gets the desired reaction — can look a lot like leadership potential to people evaluating them from a distance.