In August 2023, Lucy Letby (born 4 January 1990), a British former neonatal nurse, was found guilty on each of seven counts of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. An application to appeal her conviction was refused by the Court of Appeal in […]
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A two-year-long investigation of all deaths certified by Shipman revealed Shipman targeted vulnerable elderly people who trusted him as their doctor, killing them with either a fatal dose of drugs or prescribing an abnormal amount. He was caught because Dr Linda Reynolds in 1998 was concerned about the high death rate among Shipman’s patients and
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According to the FBI, serial murder is the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events. At official site of the FBI there is plenty useful information on this topic and authors also debunked many myths about serial killers. Serial murder is a relatively rare event, estimated to comprise
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Scholars have been proposing several theories regarding our personality. But what is a personality? Personality is described as the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique, different than others and these thoughts, feelings and behaviors are relatively permanent. Hans Eysenck suggested that genetics are primarily responsible for personality and that
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Personality disorders: To be classified as a personality disorder, one’s way of thinking, feeling and behaving deviates from the expectations of the culture, causes distress or problems functioning, and lasts over time. The essential features of a personality disorder are impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits. To
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Would you tell us what the term paraphilia means and what is a paraphilia? Dr. Park Dietz: ‘’The term paraphilia comes from Greek roots and was reintroduced in 1980 as a means of getting away from the term sexual deviation that had been used before that time, and the Greek Roots refer to the idea
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Amber Rene Hagerman (November 25, 1986 – January 15, 1996) was a nine-year-old girl abducted while riding her bike in Arlington, Texas. Her younger brother, Ricky, had gone home without her because Amber had wanted to stay in the parking lot of an abandoned grocery store for a while. When he returned with his grandfather, they only found
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Dr. Michael H. Stone was a psychiatrist and scholar. Dr. Stone’s work lent support to the need for flexibility in the therapeutic approach to treating borderline personality disorder. Stone was also recognized for refining the concept of psychopathy, as described by Dr. Robert D. Hare and Dr. David Cooke. He is the author of many books, but his books
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John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. His conviction for thirty-three murders, by one individual, then covered the most homicides in United States legal history. Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13,
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After long thinking and researching I had come to the conclusion that degree of civilization and our happiness depend on how we treat the worst among us – those in prisons; how we treat minorities and marginalized groups. I was so proud of that conclusion, but then I was reading about Fyodor Dostoevsky and suddenly
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