Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Homicide, Psychopathology, 18 Months
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Psych 2032a psychology of crime and correcions. Lecture 10: assessing fitness & the not criminally responsible designaion. Taught grade 5 at catholic school in richmond hill. 22 yrs old (1998) hospitalized for a brief psychoic break. His parents bought his sister, jeannine ross-armstrong, a plane icket to go see him. Feb 1, 2013, he had been sent home for having a panic atack. Went for dinner, where he insisted that they not communicate orally, only through exchanged notes. Got back to his condo, jeannine called their parents for help. 1:30am - he was seized by a ixed belief that jeannine was not his sister she was a menacing robot that had been programmed to look like his sister, yet was sent to kill him. Dislodge the circuitry beats, bludgeons and stabs his sister to death. Neighbours heard yelling and screaming, called security who went up to the condo, heard i"m dying, i"m dying .