Your essay was very well written and very informative. I like how you were specific about antisocial personality disorder and how you went in depth as to why they might not have remorse of sympathy for others. I also like fact that you brought up a thought to the reader when you said, “another thing to notice is how hard it would be to befriend a person with antisocial personality disorder”. I a way this statement would make anyone think about the danger that they would be exposed to but at the same time it creates awareness of who to be precautious of and who deserves professional help. You mentioned that someone with antisocial personality disorder show symptoms and patterns of misbehavior and they often lack moral conscience because of the …show more content…
His behavior was a result of his childhood, his father was an alcoholic who was very abusive towards him. Richard Kuklinski was a serial killer and a mafia hitman who showed no sympathy for others. The decision to kill people came to him like a breeze and he really showed no remorse after it. He told the story of how he first joined the mafia and was told to kill an innocent man that was walking his dog outside. He simply shot him, and shockingly he said he did it without having to think about it twice. He tortured animals, specifically cats and he seemed to enjoy it. Dr. Lamorte only showed a very brief clip of his interview, but I personally have seen the entire film for one of my other classes and one think that really stood out to me is how he seems so confident in his explanations when asked how many people he has murdered. Not only does he describe how he kills people, but there was an occasion where he laughed and joked about it. He claimed to have killed over 100 people, which shows the magnitude of his abnormal actions. I feel that his case was a lot more serious because he was more like a sociopath. A sociopath is someone who has a lack of
Have you ever wondered what makes a serial killer tick and sets them off? What makes them want to kill and what is their drive to continue this horrible, sickening journey through their life or what was the cause for them to change their nature in life and create them into these monsters that we see them as today? It takes tragic experiences to cause abuse, whether it is verbal, physical, or even sexual, to cause a sense of damage to a person’s mind and disrupt their ability to comprehend what is sane and not. Well, Edmund Emil Kemper III had all of the makings of becoming a serial killer due to his troubled childhood. He was born in Burbank, California on December 18, 1948 and was the son of Edmund Emil Kemper, Jr. and Clarnell Stage.
Kuklinski was rational in the way that he conducted his business, as well as his killings but the motivation for it was based on the psychodynamic theory. Kuklinski was a very rational actor in the sense that he thought about the safest ways to kill people without getting caught or doing a good job dismembering the body or freezing it so it prevents identification. Kuklinski’s favorite “weapon” was cyanide poisoning, which back then, was undetectable in an autopsy. He would poison his victims and the cause of death ended up being unknown. Richard Kuklinski also earned his name “The Iceman” by freezing the bodies after death, to throw off the forensic pathologists when they look for a time of death. This is beneficial because it wouldn't put Kuklinski at the scene of the murder. To prevent detection he would also sometimes bury the individual bodies. This was a very rational choice that reaped individual benefits which is consistent with the rational choice theory. Kuklinski had gotten into that work because this was the only way he knew how to provide for his family. Richard had wanted his family to be taken care of, he didn't want to feel weak and out of control of his home life. He had such a problem with control, that according to his ex-wife, he, just like his father abused her and the children. Although the motivation
...not function without an element of ruthlessness and a need to win. Could any capitalist be called a sociopath? In my opinion I believe that while this non-fiction novel does enlighten us to some degree on the nature and behaviors of sociopaths, it is not a myopic and in depth study worth putting any faith-based investments into. Also, it fails to answer a major and simple question: what does the future hold for these ‘monsters’? Will the population of sociopaths increase exponentially, until it is they who must destroy us for being the minority? Or are their numbers diminishing due to social awareness about this condition? Is sociopathy purely biological in nature or does this personality disorder also stem from personal experience or otherwise? In short, this book raises more questions that in answers, resulting in a disappointing and unfulfilled search for truth.
...dent because he was known to hang out in a bar in Santa Cruz where off duty police officers could be found, asking questions about the murders he had committed. He had even applied to become a police officer (Martingale 222). Kemper, by calling the police and describing details of the murders to get them to believe he was the “coed killer,” was finally getting the notoriety and recognition he felt he deserved for the first time in his life. The label of antisocial personality disorder can be applied to Kemper. He paid no attention to the pain and suffering he caused others and completely ignored their individual rights. This behavior started early in his childhood and continued until he became incarcerated. Edmund Kemper III is a sociopath, a psychopath, the “coed killer,” a serial killer, one of the most horrifying and most serious offenders living in prison today.
There is no reason for why he killed the people he did but I speculate the reason he did the killings were for his low IQ and just because he wanted to do it. Nobody in this world can speculate who the next serial killer is or how these serial killers come. If I take out all the fabricated lies from Arthur Shawcross we get to understand that this man was normal or better yet did not have a hard childhood. Sometimes this is the indicator for somebody who can potentially be at risk for being a serial killer. For our guy, at least this is not the case something had to happen for him to spurt off into countless
Richard Kuklinski was both a contract killer and a serial killer that killed over 200 people, and got away with all but 5. He would not only kill the strangers organized crime families would appoint to him, but he would kill strangers who irritated him. His childhood and genetic makeup created the monster he became. There is proof of this through his brother, because he turned out a similar to Richard. Richard’s unique situation regarding his upbringing made him successful in his career choice, and set him apart from most serial killers.
So what makes a serial killer? Levin points out that contrary to popular belief, serial killers don't just 'snap'; or 'go crazy'; (Douglas, p. 137). Many of the serial killers have been the victims of childhood abuse. Jack Levin stated 'Research shows many serial killers suffered abuse, incest or neglect as children and develop poor self images'; (Douglas, p. 137). Serial killers often have a childhood marked by the absence of any nurturing relationship. 'They often come from families where the parents were absent or ineffective, where authority was not defined, and where they could engage in destructive behavior undeterred-violent play, cruelty to animals, and incidents of arson being some of the childhood behavior patterns noted among many serial killers'; (Clark, p. 206).
Some of the criteria that a sociopath is required to meet are the outright display of more than three symptoms of antisocial personality
Richard Kuklinski was not your average serial killer, he was hired as a hitman and eventually killed about 200 people in a 30 year time period. Many think his early life was the reason he grew up to be such a violent criminal. He grew up in a Catholic home but had very abusive parents. Both of his parents would brutally beat him and his siblings for absolutely no reason. Kuklinski’s brother reportedly died from such a brutal beating by his father. His father eventually left the family. Kuklinski started his criminal activity by killing animals such as cats. His excitement for killing animals eventually turned into disgust because he got bored of it.
What is a psychopath? What type of person can be characterized by this and how do they come to be? But first, before we can answer these questions, we must first know what a psychopath is. Psychopaths are people suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviors; clinically it is a person who has a lack of what we would consider a conscience. Psychopaths are seen to suffer from a lack of empathy because of psychological, genetic and environmental factors.
Popular films have a distorted picture of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Such as in the film, Silence of the Lamb, the character Hannibal Lecter is a psychopath and cannibal who is known to eat his patients. Dr. Lecter must overcome his counter transference in order to achieve therapeutic success, which he personally psychologically evaluates FBI agent, Clarice Sterling in return give information about the killer. Dr. Hannibal Lecter has an antisocial personality disorder where he lacks remorse, failure to respect the law, deceit, charming, minimize their consequences, and show high intelligence. Antisocial personality disorder defined in DSM-IV and more commonly associated with psychopathy. The general population between 6%
A sociopath in the highest sense of the term. I honestly don't believe that, but I might just be in a state of denial. That, dear readers, is how I ended up here, confined in a straight jacket, in a high security "hospital for the clinically insane". Now the flaw in the title of this confinement is the term hospital. This place is more of a prison, if anything else.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a notorious serial killer known for his sadistic techniques he inflicted upon his victims as well as his violent actions he had towards animals as a young teen. At the age of 14, young Jeffrey Dahmer had claimed that his desire towards necrophilia and violence had started to appear possibly due to the breakdown of his parents marriage or even because of the constant moving that him and his family had done during his adolescent years. Eventually, Dahmer’s early psychological trauma would affect him to the point where he would succumb to excessive alcohol consumption and the infliction of vicious attacks towards all 17 of his victims.
What is a sociopath? Google has listed the definition as “a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.” As the definition states, sociopaths are affected by a mental disorder called Antisocial Personality Disorder, otherwise known as ASPD, that causes them to fail to have proper human emotion. Those affected by ASPD also fail to function morally and have a tendency to dissatisfy the need of having remorse or guilt from lying, breaking the law, or manipulating others for their own prosperity. The question is, how does someone receive this disorder?
He came from privilege. Whenever he got in trouble, his parents fixed it. After a series of other crimes, he planned the murders for months, carefully and privately. He did not act on impulse or because of peer pressure. He was not mentally disabled -- in fact was quite intelligent.