Borderline personality disorder

The tool of psychological profiling has gained a lot of notoriety both in fictional media as well as real life for its ability to aid in the capture of dangerous psychopathic serial killers. This type of offender is unique when compared to other criminals because financial motive is usually not the primary reason for murder. This is because what they seek to attain is psychological and sexual gratification with certain types. (LaBrode, 2007) Ultimately, why they all kill is to experience power…

Incarceration rates within the United States are among the highest in the world, but when sentences come to an end, offenders are released back into the community. As hundreds of thousands of offenders are released from prison each year, the stigma of being an ex-prisoner results in a multitude of obstacles, such as housing, employment, and relationships (Plante, 2015). Because reintegration back into the community can be such a difficult process, attention needs to be given to reentry barriers…

Do you remember impatiently waiting for mail to be delivered to your home? It would take weeks or even months for a letter to be received. With the invention of the internet, it has become easier to get messages to one another. The internet has become the easier way to communicate with others since it has a variety of social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc. Social media has become popular over the years for different reasons. People can not only send messages to each other but they…

American Culture: Why Today’s Generation is Not Narcissistic In today’s day and age, it is easy to fall into the trap of focusing on only oneself and not anyone or anything else. It is easy to get so caught up in social media and the excitement of seeing how many likes one might get on Instagram or how many retweets on Twitter. It is easy to become nearly obsessed with tangible items that are of no emotional value. It is so compelling and fun and it is part of this generation’s culture, but in…

Cornell professor of communication Jeff Hancock and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, Michael T. Woodworth and Stephen Porter conducted a well-known study on the language of psychopaths, “A growing set of research suggests that subtle patterns in word choice can reveal underlying cognitive and emotional processes” (Hancock, Woodworth, & Porter, 2013, p.103) Using the Wmatrix linguistic analysis and the Dictionary of Affect and Language, evaluated the speech patterns of convicted…

believe that social media promotes narcissism because I see how so many people believe that they are better than everyone just because their skills or physical appearance. Narcissism is considered a personality disorder according to Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clinic states that narcissism is “a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others.” In other words, narcissism is the act of believe that you are…

For the Children and education, parents can have as much children as they want but they need to provide that they have ability to feed and take care of their children first. Once the women want the baby, they can go to hospital and ask for perspective drugs for having a baby. Children would life with their parents until they are in age of 18, but they can decide if they want to move out after they are 14 years old. Children would only have freedom and rights at certain level, and their other…

Schools teach children to always “Love Yourself” when it comes to creating higher self-esteem. When students get used to this aphorism, it creates an oblivious personality where the GenMe’er only relies on his/herself. In the book Generation Me, Twenge observed that, “Instead of asking for a balanced treatment of a topic, however, the test asks for the student to ‘develop your point of view on the issue’... What’s…

their crimes. Typically, they do not stop killing until they are caught. The media often portrays them as evil genius capable of superhuman feats. The purpose of this paper is to review multidisciplinary research on Serial Killers’ behavioral and personality traits in conjunction with crime scene characteristics to ascertain a better understanding of the phenomenon of serial homicide. A serial killer is someone who murders three or more people in more than 30 days, and there is a usually a…

Antisocial Personality Disorder in A Clockwork Orange. Clockwork orange is a dystopian movie revolving around Alex, the main character and also the narrator. The movie starts with Alex and his group beating up an old man because they disliked how he sound while singing. As the movie progresses on you see a couple more scenes of violence. A particulary important scene is when Alex and his drooges invaded the Author's house and raped his wife. It's clear that Alex enjoys causing distress in other…