How to investigate successful predators

How can we effectively study "successful" psychopaths? It's easy enough to study the unsuccessful ones: prisons provide a captive audience for researchers. But what about the elusive corporate psychopath? The corrupt but charismatic governor? The well-respected bank exec who is also a pedophile? Maybe we can gain access to one or a few for close study, but they're hidden by their very nature. Try to imagine conducting a study on congressional or executive branch psychopathy. How would you gain access to such a sample, let alone get them to agree to be studied?

Lobaczewski found one such method purely by happenstance: in a pathocracy, all such types migrate to leadership positions. He didn't have to go looking for them; they were all right there on the local committees of the communist party. But what about non-pathocratic countries or "mixed pathocracies" (i.e. pathocratically captured democracies)? The best way to get data on such people is relatively simple: talk to the individuals who have had to deal with them due to the nature of their work. This may not provide direct access, but has the advantage of utilizing the normal person's insight gained from close proximity and years of experience. At the very least, it's the place to start before better methods of detection become available....<<<Read More>>>....