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Serial Killers, Psychopaths, Sociopaths, and Criminals

- Hannibal Lecter • Silence of the Lambs - Serial Killers • Ted Bundy • John Wayne Gacy • Richard Ramirez : satan-worshipper, night stalker, killing 30 women • Jeffrey Dahmer : neurological issues • Robert Pickton : a Canadian serial killer, neurological issues going on with him, lacks empathy, introverted

• Edmund Kemper : a psychopath, kills grandparents, schizophrenia, released back at 18 yo, necrophilic and cannibal, killed his mother, he is a personal assistant of the prison’s psychiatrist, got away with a lot because of his charms and high IQ

- http://youtu.be/pFfc151Zkg4?t=237 PSYCHOPATHY — it is a way of being

• Phillip Pinel : over saw sanitarium and asylum “group of individuals that are cold and callous, just morally insane”

• Hervey Cleckley : moral insanity, these people have morbid feelings around people, impulse in the problem (emotions, temper), these guys look normal but just have this moral insanity

• Robert Hare: Canadian psychologist, expended concept more by PCL-R • Factor 1 : Cleckley was describing — Interpersonal > glibness/superficial charm > grandiose sense of self-worth > pathological lying > conning-manipulative — Affective > lack of remorse or guilt > shallow affect > callous - lack of empathy > failure to accept responsibility 1

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• Factor II : Hare — Behaviour > need for stimulations > parasitic lifestyle > lack of realistic long-term goals > impulsivity > irresponsible > poor behavioural controls > early behavioural controls : highly reactive to insults > juvenile delinquency > revocation of conditional release — Independent Factors > criminal versatility > promiscuous sexual behaviour > short-term marital problems : they are very manipulative https://youtu.be/ey1PFQEPuiA * you need to fit in 30 out of 40 on the list, most have meet the cuts of Behavioural and Personality SOCIOPATHY — anti social deal of life that differs from normality — behavioural problems — neurological deficits — no strong criminal component which draws a line between sociopathy and psychopathy

• DSM 1 (1959) : conceptualizing sociopathy, personality driven • DSM II (1980) : removed from DSM and now known as antisocial disorder • ASPD A. Disregard for and violation of others rights prior to age 15, as indicated by the three following: * even if you meet the sociopath cut (italics) you are not a psychopath * asymmetrical relationship CONDUCT DISORDER AND ASPD — behaviourally driven > animal cruelty > physical cruel > mugging — must have conduct disorder as a child or evidence of early behavioural problems to receive and ASPD diagnosis — must have a conduct disorder as a child > unstable/erratic parenting > inconsistent parental discipline 2

Sunday, May 2, y > accompanying child abuse/neglect > accompanying ADHD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRIME, ASPD, AND PSYCHOPATHY — prevalence of ASPD > general population: 3% lifetime > incarcerated populations * female 25%, male 50% — prevalence of PSYCHOPATHY > general population: 1% > incarcerated populations: *female 2%, male 10% *there is no such thing as female psychopath as it is evolutionary basis — individuals who score higher on PCL-R are more likely to: > recidivate > be violent and express aggressive tendencies > be promiscuous > display deviant sexual arousal > sexually offend > be more sadistic in sexual offences > obtain early release from prison TREATMENT — we cannot treat a psychopath — there is a benefit, CEO and stock brokers, politics

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