Jeffrey Dahmer Case Study Of Criminal Behavior

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Dahmer was your normal quiet nerdy kid growing up, besides the fact that he would go around collecting dead animals in the neighborhood and dissect them at his house. His later acts included the compulsive masturbating, and becoming a homosexual. He was kicked out from his house after being discharged from the military, and he moved to his grandparents. His grandmother admitted to routinely finding different weapons in his room and to him being very strange. Shortly after Dahmers second arrest in 1986 for the indecent expose again, Dahmers grandmother kicked him out because of this strange behavior he was continuously doing. A short time thereafter, was when the serious crimes had begun, starting his evolution into being one of the most horrific …show more content…
George Palermo who was an expert witness of the case ordered by the judge, he testified saying “an organized, non-social, lust murderer`` who was methodical, shrewd and in control of what he was doing. Jeffrey Dahmer knew exactly what he was doing. He took precautions. He knew the consequences of his actions. But he did not want to stop.” Also saying, “``Nobody can deny that Jeffrey Dahmer is a sick person. he is not psychotic.. He was legally sane at the time of the offenses.” He testified that Dahmer suffered from Necrophilia, which is an attraction to corpses. Furthermore, he said he found Dahmer to be smart, emotionally relaxed, and his thinking processes were logical and rational; as well as indifferent to the feelings of others, self-centered, a sexual sadist, and obsessed with a fantasy of having power over others. Some critical information about Dr. George Palermo found would be that he was centralized where the trial took place, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was around 75 the time of the trial. He founded The Center for Forensic Psychiatry and Risk Assessment. He is also a)neurologist. He attended University Di Bologna, in Italy, in 1951. He later was certified with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

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