Antisocial Personality Disorders In Jack The Ripper

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Antisocial Personality Disorder, what do you think about when you see this group of words? Most people, like myself, think of someone who’s lonely or sad, and while this is slightly true there is still so much more to this disorder. There is so much to learn about general personality disorders and antisocial personality disorders such as the warning signs, the causes, the treatments and whom this illness mostly affects. An antisocial personality disorder is only one type of personality disorders so to understand APD, we must first learn about personality disorders in general. A personality
Over the few centuries, many people would lose their minds and murder. They would murder for the pure pleasure of killing, Cannibalism, rape/necrophilia, driven to the
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After being caught, most would face their punishment, others just rotting away in a cell. There was one person though who got away with his crime, one who was never really revealed. A deranged man who went with the name; Jack the Ripper. Reasons for doing research on Jack the Ripper are if you have a fascination of serial killers and how they murdered others, also if you wanted to learn more about the people Jack murdered, the letters that were sent in claiming to be him, one even giving the name “Jack the
Ripper”, and to learn of some suspects and why they were suspected of being him. You can also learn if they ever did find out who actually The Ripper was. During the end of summer to the end of fall in the year 1888, during 4 nights, a man (or woman) went around the small area of the east end of London and brutally murdered 5 girls. His reasons for doing the crime are unknown. (WELCOME TO JACK THE RIPPER 1888) The girls
Higdon 4 he slaughtered were nothing special, all of them were prostitutes. “Why would a man just go into night and just murder prostitutes?” A question that has been around for decades.

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