It's Dateline Saving Time. About Us; Careers; Contact; Privacy Policy New; Terms of Service; nbcnews.com Site Map; Advertise. Psychopaths, Children, and Evil. Find Barry Manilow credit information on AllMusic. World's Best Mum: Primary Artist : 2006. Serial Mom: Basil Poledouris: Producer. Psychopaths, Children, and Evil . And of course, the New York Times Sunday Magazine article: Can You Call a 9 Year Old a Psychopath. And then there was the Opinion piece about how we shouldn't be surprised that 1. Brain scans can help spot the smartest service dogs. Kailyn Lowry sends Teen Mom fans into a spin after letting. Wall Street are ? That is what it means to be evil. She has a student in her class who she’s afraid for. For years he’s been hard to handle – spitting, punching, running around, and saying the crudest and most sexually repugnant things that might emerge from anyone’s mouth, never mind that of a child not yet close to puberty. And hurtful too – grabbing and twisting a breast, pinching an arm or kicking. But suddenly he’s much worse. Look aside for a moment and he’s gouging at another child’s eyes. Medication that is supposed to keep him calm makes him more violent and hysterical. And there seem to be no beds – anywhere – for a very young psychiatric patient, even to watch him while they try to find the right medication combination to bring his behavior within manageable levels. His mother is at wits end and fearful for her younger children. How do his parents and his teachers cope with a child like that? There are no easy answers.
I have also been struck by people’s reactions to the idea of a dangerous child. When my sister posted the NYTimes article about “callous, unemotional” children (as child psychopaths are called) on her Facebook page, a friend said that those kids just needed to be “broken” – that they were in control of their environment and they needed to be exhausted to the point of compliance. Haven't we tried that? Isn't that why jails are disproportionately full of adult psychopaths? Don't we want to stop people before they've gotten to the point where they need to be incarcerated? The strengths and limits of parenting. I’m a parenting researcher. I believe in environmental influence on human behavior and believe that for most children, the single most important influence is a parent or parent substitute. I also believe in brains. As the author of The Amygdala Made Me Do it wrote, there is a wealth of research out there that tells us that: Our biological predispositions shape how we react to our environment and how it reacts to us. Our interactions with the environment shape the structural and organizational characteristics of our brains. When I say good parenting makes kids smarter, more trusting, and kinder to others, I am not surprised that neuroscientists find that those changes can be documented with an f. MRI showing structural and organizational changes in the brain. In fact, in the late 5. Nor am I surprised when I can see differences in parenting and child behavior reflected in changes in cortisol and alpha amylase levels during social interactions between parents and their children. Serial Entrepreneur in Mom/Family. Download speed with no limits; Unlimited simultaneous downloads. This allows you to enjoy our Premium service without having to worry about the subscription expiring. I would like to say this is by far one of the best G Funk albums 2nd to the Chronic the. When my mom introduced me into. What do you think causes behavioral and cognitive change – fairy dust? Observed behavior has biological underpinnings. But that does not mean that biology is destiny. It means that we are different from one another and that behavior is hard to change. Ever tried to quit smoking, lose weight, or stop yelling at your kid? But it takes time. Programs that teach children to recognize emotions in others and to respond appropriately to them (see the PATHS program, for example) can also help to develop the ability of children who do not naturally respond to the pain of others to do so. It is feeling the pain of those who we hurt that helps stop us from doing so. There is a reason that Elmo on Sesame Street labels emotions for us and shows us what they look like. Some kids don’t know what it looks like to be sad or to be hurt. And some kids don't feel what it feels to be sad or hurt, so they don't know what those words mean. We can be born blind to emotions too. For some children, programs like PATH try to teach them what they already know – what other people feel. They know that because the mirror neurons in their own brains respond to the emotions of others so they feel their pain. Feeling someone else’s pain makes hurting others painful to you. Other children don’t feel that. They have few mirror neurons and the pain, empathy, and fear centers in the amygdala are stunted. Corrective experience in the environment may be helpful there. First, they can cognitively learn to recognize what they can’t feel, just as someone who can’t see red may be able to learn to distinguish it from other colors from contextual cues. And they may be able to be taught strategies that help them meet their needs - reward them - without hurting others. Second, exercise helps. Brains are not infinitely malleable, but they do change and grow depending upon experience. If you use an area of your brain, it expands its capacity. Thus using an ability will strengthen it and encourage the development of brain structures and connections that foster performance. Third, lack of exercise causes atrophy. We begin life with many more neurological connections than we will eventually use. Those that are not used are trimmed, making us more efficient. But that also means if we fail to get normal environmental experiences that will maintain functioning in particular area of the brains, we will become increasingly worse at it over time. Thus people whose behavior keeps them from having normal social interactions will tend to lose ground over time. Gene environment interaction. All of which brings us back to child psychopaths. In Waddington’s famous model of a gene- environment interaction, he talked about a creode as a hill filled with little valleys and rivulets that a ball would roll down. The rivulets represented our natural genetic (e. Pressure could be exerted to move us from one path to another – especially at junction points. If pressure was hard enough – think about traumatic brain injury or horrible environmental deprivation – we could jump from one valley to the next. Where we wound up was mutually determined by genetic and environmental factors. One important part of Waddington’s model is the depth of those valleys. Some are very deep and are difficult or impossible to get out of. Children who grow up in normal environments and lack empathy may be closer to the latter than the former. It will take extraordinary efforts to get them to change. As these people may grow up to be some of the most damaging members of our society, however, it may be to our advantage to put in that effort. Thus we may find that children who are callous and unemotional are never able to develop the normal capacity for empathy. But they may learn, cognitively, how to behave in ways that are not hurtful to others or to themselves. And from a societal perspective, that may be good enough. The Serial Killer Hit List. Edmund Kemper III (1. Ed Kemper's mom thought her son was . As a child he liked playing execution and once told his sister that if he were to love someone they would first have to be dead. As a teenager mom forced Ed to live in the basement so he wouldn't scare his sisters. He said he wanted to see how it felt to kill grandma. Consequently he was sent to Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally insane. There Eddie grew into a strapping six- foot- nine- inch hate machine. Mom had moved to Santa Cruz where she was working in the state college. In 1. 97. 2, after a particular vicious argument with mom, Ed left the house knowing he was going to kill someone. That night, a hapless female hitchhiker was the first to fall prey to Ed's Oedipal mania. He enjoyed decapitating his victims and having sex with their headless corpses. Sometimes he buried the heads of his victims outside his house facing his mother's bedroom window because she always wanted people . Later he confessed that his acts of cannibalism were because, . Curiously, the psychiatrist thought he was doing great and he was really well adjusted. Police were baffled by the amount of bodies appearing around their peaceful and bucolic surfer community. Kemper, who always wanted to be a cop, was fascinated with the investigation of his and the other crimes. He became friendly with the investigating officers and frequented their favorite haunts to grill them for grisly details. On Easter Sunday 1. Ed, the consumate mother's boy, beat her head in, then decapitated her and threw her vocal chords down the garbage disposal. When he turned it on, they chords came flying back out. Kemper later told police, . I couldn't get her to shut up! Not satisfied, he called mom's best friend, invited her over and killed her too. After, he drove to Colorado where he called his cop friends and confessed. At first they thought he was kidding. What they found at his mom's house made them change their mind. Ed now resides in the Vacaville Prison where he is their model serial killer prisoner with a heart of gold. As luck would have it, Gerald turned out meaner that his pop. When he was thirteen he was arrested for raping a six- year- old girl. Years later he was arrested for having sex with his teen- age daughter. After four or five marriages he settled down with Charlene Williams who he told her he was impotent. The only cure for it, he said, was frequent sex with virgins. Gerald and Charlene raped and slaughtered up to ten young women between 1. Some of the victims were shot to death, others were beaten to death with blunt objects, some were strangled, and at least one, who was 2. Her lawyer says that she'll pursue . Gerald, who has one more plea before being fed the worms in Nevada, claims she did the killings. The two young women disappeared from Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights in April 1. Their bodies were found three months later in a remote canyon. Gallego is suspected of having killed 1. Gallego, 5. 2, has been undergoing a court- ordered evaluation by doctors since exhibiting bizarre behavior at a hearing in November that was supposed to be the first step toward a penalty- phase retrial of his 1. That evaluation has been concluded, and attorneys from both sides conferred and settled on the starting date for the hearing that will decide if Gallego is competent to proceed. Foster, such behavior, combined with evidence of organic brain dysfunction, is indicative of a mental state that renders him incapable of assisting counsel in a retrial of his penalty- phase proceedings. Foster, an Auburn psychiatrist hired to assist Gallego's appellate defense team in California in 1. Gallego's behavior is a result of a . In other words, Bobby had tits. Adding to his confusion his mother slept with him until he was thirteen. He masturbated five times a day in addition to the two daily sessions with his wife. Not satisfied he began stalking for new dates. From 1. 98. 0 to 1. Bobby was busy raping fifty women in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area. In 1. 98. 4, after moving back to the Tampa Bay area, he graduated to murder. Traces of Bobby Joe's bright red nylon floor fiber was found on the shoes of his victims, which he would place in obscene positions for authorities to find. He also kept a detailed file with all the clippings of his crime spree. In November 1. 7, 1. Tampa movie theater. In early 1. 98. 5 he received the death penalty. He now awaits his date with Ol' Sparky in Florida's Death Row. David J. Carpenter (1. In 1. 96. 1, at age thirty- three, David started demonstrating his psychotic tendencies when he attacked a woman with a hammer. After a stint in jail, a prison break, and another stint in jail, he came out a reformed man. In 1. 97. 8 he relocated to San Francisco to work in a print shop. By August 1. 97. 9 he was back to his old tricks. He started killing mostly women in hiking trails in Tamalpais State Park in San Francisco. He cruelly shot and stabbed his victims as they knelt and pled for their lives. By the end of 1. 98. By 1. 98. 1 he had moved his hunting grounds to trails as far away as Santa Cruz. In May 1, 1. 98. 1, police went to the print shop to investigate the whereabouts of Heather Scaggs, his ninth victim, who disappeared after he gave her a ride home from work. There they recognized him from the . Evidence linked him to the some of the murder weapons and the murder of another woman who he knew. Henry Louis Wallace(9+). Confessed serial killer Henry Wallace was convicted of murdering nine women, all co- workers at Charlotte- area fast food restaurants, friends of his sister or friends of a former girlfriend. Uncharacteristically Wallace preyed on acquaintances, a very rare trait in serial killing. The serial murders occurred in a 2. Wallace's arrest. Black residents were particularly critical, saying the police should have realized similarities in the murders - - the victims were young black women who had been strangled. Some were also stabbed. But police denied charges of racism, responding that Wallace, who is also black, did not fit the general profile of a serial killer. Before he left some of the murder scenes, Wallace sometimes wiped off fingerprints and washed his victims. In one case, he poured rum on one victim's body and set fire to her apartment to obscure the cause of death. Then he put on her Chicago White Sox jacket, grabbed a beer from her refrigerator and left. Wallace always seemed to take one step forward and two steps back. Rebecca wore a pale green dress covered with pink flowers and a pearl necklace. Wallace looked dashing in his red prison jumpsuit and black tennis shoes. Wallace's court- appointed attorney, Mecklenburg County public defender Isabel Day, served as an official witness and photographer. Also attending was the manager of the death- row unit at the prison. They were reunited a few minutes later in another area, where they were separated by plastic glass and bars, and talked for about an hour. Calvin Jackson (9+) Calvin did not like to stray away from home. That's why he did most of his killings in the Park Plaza Hotel in Manhattan where he lived. He heard voices telling him to kill old people and was happy to comply. He enjoyed raping his victims before and after death. He was arrested while he was carrying a stolen TV down a fire escape. He was also suspected, although never convicted, of five additional killings in Buffalo. Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh (9). On August 1. 2, 1. Ali Reza Khoshruy Kuran Kordiyeh - - known as the . To hide his crime he reportedly poured gas on several of his victims and set them on fire. Some of the bodies were not destroyed completely and police found up to 3. As part of the punishment he was also flogged by prison authorities. His last words as he was hoisted up to the crane were: . I ask God for forgiveness for what I did. He was picked up again for suspicious behavior at a mall, and was later identified through a police sketch provided by two women who had escaped him. Faced with evidence, including blood stains on his car, Kordiyeh confessed. His trial became a was broadcast live to fascinated Iranians by state- run television, but cameras were barred from the hanging. However, amateur video footage of the execution did make it to western news broadcasts. Authorities fear that the publicity generated by Gholom's reign of terror could provoke copy- cat killings. Already another taxi driver was arrested after attempting to assault a woman passenger. According to press reports, he boasted: . A product of a brutally unhappy childhood, Peter got his kicks by strangling squirrels and beating off dogs. When he was nine he helped two boys drown in a boating accident. As a teen- age he graduated to fucking sheep and goats and knifing them to achieve orgasm. Once he was out he was free to kill with impunity. Pete earned the moniker . He also killed animals when he was feeling thirsty. On occasion he delighted in setting fires to abandoned buildings hoping to roast whatever transients might be sleeping inside. His wife never imagined such a mild mannered man could be responsible for such ruthless killings. When confessed to the police his wife, who was sitting next to him, fainted. Peter proceeded to give police a detailed recounting of 7. While in jail Peter had many orgasm just thinking about his crimes. He also enjoyed returning to his crime scenes where he would instantly cum' in his pants. His wish came true on July 2, 1. Ian Brady & Myra Hindley (9) Ian and Myra met while working for a chemical company in Hyde, Greater Manchester, England. She thought he was quite an intellectual as he sat in the lunch room reading Mein Kampf in German. As their love blossomed they became more obsessed with Nazi paraphernalia, pornography and sadism. At first they enjoyed shooting pictures of themselves in the buff and in S & M drag. They thought they could crack the local porn market with their pictures but failed. Soon they proved to be more successful in child abduction and murder.
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