Joker Makes For Uncomfortable Viewing – It Shows How Society Creates Extremists
Films like Joker invite us to question the line between reality and fiction. Do such films reflect social conditions or do they, in the end, help create them?
Tag: Mental Health
France’s Lonely Hearts Serial Killer and the Strange Case of the Missing Notebook
The intriguing case of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru and how police misinterpreted a crucial piece of evidence allowing the secrets it contained to remain untold.
Prescription For Violence: The Involuntary Intoxication Through Prescribed Medication Defense
If you commit a crime while involuntarily intoxicated through legally prescribed drugs, can you and should you be held criminally responsible for your actions? In relevant cases, these are the ...
Antidepressants and the Risks of Committing Homicide
Is there really a relationship between prescribed antidepressants and a higher risk of committing murder? A research study from Finland studied 959 offenders to find out.
Effects Of Seeing An Offender As A Victim In The Genetic Mental Disorder Defense
Research from the University of Missouri suggests that genetic explanations for criminal behavior have no mitigating effect on a jury. Environmental explanations they say, show an offender as a victim ...
Mad or Bad? When Crime Met Madness and The Insanity Plea
An in-depth look at criminal behaviour and the introduction of insanity as a defence in 19th century Victorian Britain. Author David Vaughan provides excellent reference material on the topic alongside ...
Absolute Madness: A True Story of a Serial Killer, Race, and a City Divided Book Review & Author Interview
The Joseph Christopher case is explored by author Catherine Pelonero illustrating serial murder encased in mental illness and the complex issue of justice.
Understanding The Relationship Between Stalking and Homicide: Warning Signs and Risk Factors
A new research study has explored stalking behaviours and how they can lead to the murder of a victim highlighting the prevalence of obsession and fixation.
New Approach To Keep People With Mental Illness Out Of Prison
A new intervention reduces criminal convictions, jail time, and hospitalizations by roughly 50 percent among people with severe mental illness.
The Psychological Impact of Gang Violence
A violent injury makes you more vulnerable to future mental health problems, and repeated exposure to violence increases the risk of PTSD.
Extreme Overvalued Belief and Anders Breivik: How Beliefs Can Be Mistaken For Psychosis
Violent acts such as the mass shooting carried out by Norwegian Anders Breivik are not always the result of insanity, but of extreme overvalued belief.
Homicidal Thoughts May Be Key To Identifying Chronic Offenders
New research from Iowa State University is one of the first studies to explore offenders who display very real thoughts of murder.
