Disorderly conduct

Tony Taylor is a 39-year-old African American Male who was reported to have been sent to a psychiatric program due to claims of sudden impulses to stab surrounding individuals. Staff reported that while there, Tony was portrayed to be manipulative and charming. Tony reported to have had a history of abuse with alcohol, heroin, and cocaine, but has claimed to be clean for three weeks. Tony also stated that he has been arrests for several felonies, which included armed robbery and kidnapping,…

Psychopathy is a serious personality disorder that defined by both emotional detachment and antisocial behavior. According to Ashley S. Hampton, factors that include the psychopathy are impulsivity, lack of responsibility and remorse after hurting, exposing himself in dangerous situations, having violence and aggressive behaviors, failure to conform to social norms... These factor related behaviors are important for the court decision to evaluate the person’s future criminal behavior. The…

The juvenile corrections have undergone considerable transformation as the criminal justice system started to change in the 20th century. Major changes affected fields such as diversion, decriminalization, deinstitutionalization, and due process. A contributing factor to the harsh penalties of juveniles is a failure to address any of the social problems that are closely related to the causes of the delinquency. Those social problems are poverty, underemployment, family disorganization, and…

The microwave-weapon attacks on the Amritapuri Ashram victims are abominable and formidable, but they are not insurmountable, and we must overcome them. I was a victim of a microwave-weapon attack during my stay in the ashram. Now I am in the United States, and the attacks continue. Things are getting worse, and I am experiencing unbearable suffering beyond imagination. No human must go through this torture from microwave-weapon attacks by ashram adversaries. No human may torture or cruelly…

The idea of crime and punishment was a key part of the formative lessons learned from my parents. Crime touched my life early on and so rather than going on facts, I often looked at it through emotions. Therefore, criminology was definitively black and white without any gray areas. Erroneously, I often thought that once a person committed a crime they should be locked away and forgotten. While my father was adamantly not religious, my religious upbringing and biblical instruction came from my…

Merriam-Webster defines “sociopath” as “someone who behaves in a dangerous or violent way towards other people and does not feel guilty about such behavior.” Ah, I’m sure we all have someone who comes to mind: bosses, spouses, parents. When these people are in our immediate life their destructive behavior isn’t so funny. But when they are in the public eye hilarity ensues-- until we remember that a lot of these horribly funny people are in or have been in positions of political power. Let’s take…

A form of pathological liar makes up four percent of our total population, or roughly twelve million people in the United States alone, is destined by blood not made by choice. An abundant amount of people believe that sociopaths are developed due to the results and influences in their past as an adolescence but all sociopaths are born with a brain that differs those of the average human’s. Beverly Bird wrote an article entitled “Sociopathic traits in children” and said, “A potentially…

1. Q: How could Bill's ASPD have emerged from the combination of genes and environmental experiences? What specific environmental factors were important to Bill's life? In what we know about the case, was there any evidence for his father having antisocial traits? A: Bill's ASPD could have come from several factors. Bill could have inherited ASPD from his one of his parents., specifically his father. ASPD sufferers have great difficulty maintaining employment and Bill's father could not…

Following psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder, I believe that a good way to explain Vlad Dracula’s violent behavior is through social learning theory. Social Learning Theory is the belief that, learning is a cognitive process that occurs through of social contexts, either through observation or instruction, experienced as an adolescent. As I described earlier in this paper, at the age of, either 12 or 13, Dracula, along with his brother Ruda, were both sent to be captives of the…

Barnet, E. S., Perry, Azzi, V. F., Shetgiri, R., Ryan, G., Dudovits, R., & … Chung, P. J. (2015). Incarcerated youths’ perspective on protective factors and risk factors for juvenile offending: A qualitative analysis. American Journal Of Public Health, 105(7). 1365-1371. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2014.302228. This article studied many youths’ roles in protective factors for juvenile offending. They discussed methods on how they did interviews with juveniles in jail. These interviews consisted of…