Neurological Correlates

Epigenetics - the long arm reaches out for generations.

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Milk Carton, numb3r, via flickr
I met a 13 year old girl, now returned to her mother, who was on a milk carton. She was kidnapped and brought to Israel by her father.  For a few years, she was raised by her grandparents in Israel.  Her father, a handsome, charming, bon-vivant, later brought her to live [...]

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Rockefeller Center
This post covers two topics: One, the press reports that have some sympathy for the guy; two, analysis of Mr. Gerhartstreiter’s reported life so far.
Reading the recent reports, this guy is textbook: glib, beguiling, charming, arrogant, lack of empathy, low frustrational tolerance, ease in deception and lying, lack of conscience.
Classic psychopath (for previous posts [...]

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High functioning sociopaths are in positions of power and authority because they have boundless ambition and bounded morality - and, if they look the part, they ape the white guys in power. Like affirmative action - let the white guy in, give him a chance, he’s not risky.

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Selected citations from Google news search, “homicide suicide” for July 2008:
Fort Bend detectives: Man killed wife, claimed suicide
Houston Chronicle, United States - Jul 24, 2008
After an autopsy, however, the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Jackie Cantu’s death a homicide. “Upon further investigation, detectives …
Homicides end with apparent suicide
Enterprise-Record, CA - Jul 17, 2008
OROVILLE — Police found a woman [...]

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“Man shoots“
Man shoots wife, child and himself
Independent Online, South Africa - May 27, 2008
“It was alleged at the scene that the man had shot his family before turning the gun on himself.” said Dollman. Police were not immediately available for …
Augusta Man Shoots Neighbor During Dog Dispute
NBC Augusta, South Carolina - May 28, 2008
Investigators tell [...]

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Henry Darger, “Storm Brewing” via Ovation TV (Outsider Art)
Child molester news and pedophile research discussed.
It used to be, if you were a father raping your daughter, or a priest raping your alter boy, you could pretty much stay anonymous; the community would turn a blind eye, the church would cover for you, and you [...]

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Further to the report on murder-suicides (26 stories):
Man shoots . . .
Gunman shoots 3 at church festival- LOS ANGELES, May 17 (UPI) — . . . .Los [...]

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A new feature, probably on Fridays, dysfunction in the news:
Woodbury man charged with starting fire on NWA flight. If you are unhappy with your working conditions, go burn down your employer — especially if you work on an airplane.
Missouri Woman Accused of Driving Girl to Suicide Is Indicted in California From the NYT summary: [...]

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When this happens, we are all touched by evil.

Josef Fritzl, Vincent Filyaw, and Hans Reiser. Three monsters, who committed atrocities as instrumentalities — as the means to an end, not as the end in and of themselves. One, to shut up his daughter so she wouldn’t rat him out for incest. Two, [...]

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Jose Canseco, the noted baseball player and author of “Juiced“, was busy as a bee pollinating major league baseball with knowledge and practices for steroid and growth hormone use. (Here’s the link on Docuticker). This strikes me as similar to the stock option backdating scenario — interlocking boards of directors and using the [...]

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Superbowl Sunday coming up — so I’m focusing on domestic violence. (There is no rigorous study that domestic violence increases after the Superbowl).

“ Suspected, convicted and charged”, graphic from Boston Globe, 07.22.07 ( Keith O’brian, “Why do men kill their wives?”visited 01.28.08)
Domestic violence has always been implicitly given a “diminished capacity” sort of [...]

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Does money play a role in economic crime?
This seems so obvious, why even ask the question?
But, for some, the thrill is in the taking — not in the having.
Engdahl, O., “The role of money in economic crime,” British Journal of Criminology (Advanced Online 01.16.08)

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