PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Impulsivity, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Etiology
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Case of jeffrey dahmer: was he unfit to stand trial. Jeffrey dahmer makes very little sense to us. Don"t know why people like jeffrey dahmer comes along. Wagon wheel of perversion: reasonably classified as sorts of mental disorders. Most people look at jeffrey dahmer"s activity and think it doesn"t make sense, they feel he is not normal, therefore he in not sane. A lot of people in the world who have caused as much suffering or more. Concentration camps, somebody in their mind thought that was necessary. Can think about some of these things and just consider them evil not insane. You cant relate to jeffrey dahmer, therefore you think he is nuts because you don"t understand his acts. Somehow, somewhere he justified his acts, and felt they were worth it. Legal criteria for standing trial: understanding right and wrong. Do they understand the proper thing to do: were they able to prevent doing wrong.
