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CRIMINOGENIC PERSONALITY AND VIOLENCE:Terrorism and Psychopaths

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Forensic Psychology (PSY - 513)
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Lesson 24
Objectives
To understand that how and why psychopaths become university goons
To understand that how ASPD are exploited by other psychopaths
To understand the treatability debate
University Goons
Through your own observation and experience you can feel that many individuals with antisocial
personality disorder (ASPD) Join university religious groups. Such groups attract them because:
1.
Such groups gives them a sense of lose belonging, no strong bond is required.
2.
But this membership gives them power.
3.
Power that they can use for violence and influence.
4.
Mostly ASPD have a sense of inadequacy and inferiority. So when they join such groups it
compensates for their sense of inadequacy and inferiority.
5. ASPD terrorize other students for no cause and enjoy that feeling. like beating up the male
students if the are talking to a girl. Although talking to other gender is not a crime but
beating up any one is a crime.
6. After having done this thing they feel good about themselves.
Terrorism and Psychopaths
Many psychopaths turn to extreme religious groups outside the universities. And if the leader of that
extreme religious group is another psychopath, then they are exploited by other psychopath leader.
Now their two qualities make them perfect for terrorist activities.
1. Their lack of fear and thrill seeking behavior helps them carry out dangerous suicidal
tasks.
2. Their lack of victim empathy makes them perfect for harming innocent civilians.
So in this way an ASPD becomes a common criminal to university goon to a terrorist.
Personality disorder specific crime
Different personality disorders commit different specific type of crimes.
Borderline Personality
Suicidal attempts, prostitution
Disorder
Paranoid Personality disorder
One time murder attempt or
murder
Antisocial Personality
Robbery,
rape,
terrorist
Disorder
activities
Treatability Debate
Like predictability and changeability debate, another controversial issue of Forensic psychology is
the treatability of personality disorders. Psychotherapy is nearly always the treatment of choice for
these disorder; medications may be used to help stabilize mood swings or specific and acute Axis I
concurrent diagnoses. There is no research that supports the use of medications for direct treatment
of antisocial personality disorder, though. Usually experts consider Dialectical Behavioral
Therapy as suitable treatment for BPD.
Most individuals with personality disorders rarely seek treatment on their own, without being
mandated to therapy by a court or significant other. Court referrals for assessment and treatment for
this disorder are likely the most common referral source. A careful and thorough assessment will
ensure that the person that the person has antisocial personality disorder. This can often be confused
with simple criminal activity (all criminals do not have this disorder), adult antisocial behavior, and
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other activities which do not justify the personality disorder diagnosis. As with a thorough
assessment of any suspected personality disorder, formal psychological testing should be considered
invaluable.
Because many people who suffer from this disorder will be mandated to therapy, sometimes in a
forensic or jail setting, motivation on the patient's part may be difficult to find. In a confined setting,
it may be nearly impossible and therapy should then focus on alternative life issues, such as goals
for when they are released from custody, improvement in social or family relationships, learning
new coping skills, etc. we will discuss details of treatment in forth coming lessons.
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Table of Contents:
  1. INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY:Future of Forensic Psychology
  2. INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PSYCHOOGY:Way of police investigation
  3. FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND POLICE:Violent Criminals
  4. POLICE PSYCHOLOGY:Use of excessive force, Corruption, Personnel Selection
  5. POLICE PSYCHOLOGY:Fitness-for-Duty Evaluation (FFDE), False Confessions
  6. INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY:For instance, Empirical and logical approach
  7. INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY:Crime Scene Investigation, Staging
  8. PSYCHOLOGY OF VIOLENCE:Law of Conservation of Energy, Super ego
  9. PSYCHOANALYTIC MODEL AND VIOLENCE:Fixation at Oral Stage
  10. PSYCHOANALYTIC MODEL AND VIOLENCE:Defense Mechanism, Rationalization
  11. JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND VIOLENCE:Freudian Methods, JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY
  12. JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY AND VIOLENCE:Religion and mental illnesses
  13. BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVE AND VIOLENCE:Shadow’s violence, Child’s violence
  14. BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVE AND VIOLENCE:Operant Conditioning
  15. BEHAVIORIST PERSPECTIVE AND VIOLENCE:Schedules of Punishment
  16. SOCIAL LEARNING MODEL AND VIOLENCE:Observational learning, Vicarious punishment
  17. MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND VIOLENCE:Symbolic functioning, Formal operational stage
  18. BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL MODEL:Mental hospitals are factories of abuse
  19. ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE ABOUT VIOLENCE:Morality is essential
  20. ISLAMIC MODEL:Nafs al-Ammara, Nafs al-Lawwama, Nafs ul Naatiqa
  21. TREATMENTS FOR THE SOUL:Tawba, Sabr o Shukr, Niyyat o Ikhlaas, Taffakkur
  22. CRIMINOGENIC PERSONALITY:Personality Disorders, Common Crimes
  23. CRIMINOGENIC PERSONALITY AND VIOLENCE:Mnemonic, Similarities
  24. CRIMINOGENIC PERSONALITY AND VIOLENCE:Terrorism and Psychopaths
  25. LEARNING DISABILITIES/MENTAL RETARDATION AND VIOLENCE
  26. ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS:Reasons for referral, Personality Inventories
  27. ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS:Different cutoff scores
  28. RISK ASSESSMENT:Violence reduction scale, Stability of Family upbringing
  29. TREATMENT OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOR / PERSONALITY PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
  30. JUNGINA THERAPEUTIC MODEL:Limits of re-parenting, Personality Typologies
  31. GROUP THERAPY FOR OFFENDERS:Learning in Groups, Humanistic Groups
  32. PSYCHOTHERAPIES IN FORENSIC SETTINGS:Narrative Therapy
  33. PSYCHOTHERAPIES IN FORENSIC SETTINGS:Solution Focused Therapy
  34. PSYCHOTHERAPIES IN FORENSIC SETTINGS:Avoiding reactance, Externalization
  35. PSYCHOTHERAPY IN FORENSIC SETTINGS AND SPECIAL CHALLENGES
  36. FORENSIC PSYCHOTHERAPY:Exploring therapeutic alliance, Music Therapy
  37. VIOLENCE REDUCTION PROGRAM:Target Population, Lack of motivation
  38. VIOLENCE REDUCTION PROGRAM:Criminal attitude, Interpersonal Aggression
  39. VICTIM SUPPORT:Main features of PTSD, Emotional Support
  40. VICTIM SUPPORT:Debriefing, Desensitization, Eidetic Therapy, Narrative Therapy
  41. SUBSTANCE MISUSE TREATMENT PROGRAM:Marijuana, Unconventional drugs
  42. SUBSTANCE MISUSE TREATMENT PROGRAM:Stages of Change, Homosexuality
  43. EXPERT WITNESS:Insanity Pleas, Sexual Offence Risk, Instructions
  44. COUNTER TERRORISM:Misconceptions, Psychologists & Propaganda war
  45. SUMMING UP FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY:Problems with Risk Assessment, Expert Witness