Saving Face
This thread was spawned as a result of the earlier thread I wrote called “A Deadly Lesson” “Saving Face” is one of the most important street commandments that most street predators and thugs consider sacrosanct. If at anytime you challenge a person’s “face” either verbally and or physically, you are likely going to be in [...]
Ganser Syndrome
What is Ganser syndrome? Ganser syndrome is a type of factitious disorder, a mental illness in which a person acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when in truth, he or she has caused the symptoms. People with factitious disorders act this way because of an inner need to be [...]
What the Experts Hear in Van Der Sloot Confession
(June 8) — Newswires around the world are abuzz today over the reported confession of Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch native arrested last week in a Peruvian woman’s murder, but who is perhaps equally infamous for his longtime association with the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Many of those same headlines are dubbing van [...]
Conversion Disorder
What Is It? A conversion disorder is a rare mental disorder in which a person has physical symptoms that no medical condition can explain. The person is not “faking.” The symptoms do not appear to be under the person’s conscious control and they can cause significant distress. Examples of symptoms are a loss of muscle [...]
Excited Delirium and its Correlation to Sudden and Unexpected Death Proximal to Restraint
Caveat: The purpose of this paper is to shed some light, create meaningful dialogue, and encourage further scientific and medical research into the multi-factoral issues surrounding sudden and unexpected death proximal to restraint. Although a rare occurrence in Canada, sudden and unexpected death proximal to police use of force and restraint is a reality that [...]
Dr Park Dietz: Dangerous minds
As America’s leading forensic psychiatrist, Dr Park Dietz puts killers behind bars. Now he has another role, making TV crime dramas. He tells Andrew Gumbel why mixing fact and fiction can be deadly serious Dr Park Dietz has an uneasy relationship with publicity, and it’s not just because of his deep, abiding familiarity with the [...]
Body dysmorphic disorder
Definition Body dysmorphic disorder is a type of chronic mental illness in which you can’t stop thinking about a flaw with your appearance — a flaw either that is minor or that you imagine. But to you, your appearance seems so shameful and distressing that you don’t want to be seen by anyone. Body dysmorphic [...]
Serial killer
Serial killer A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people with a “cooling off” period between each murder and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification.[1] One hypothesis is that all serial killers suffer from some form of Antisocial Personality Disorder.[2] They are usually not psychotic, and thus [...]
Surprise, the Criminal’s Advantage
Are We Training For All Probabilities Recently, I had a great discussion with a former street thug (who cleaned his life up several years ago, and is now married and has several children) about the who, what, where, when, how, and why of his target selection in his past life. Many of the principals that [...]
The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment
Statement of the Problem The course of human development is not a series of random events. The lives of adults at any point in time are the result of previous choices and environmental influences. Primarily due to lack of good data, insufficient attention has been paid to the relationship between early life behaviors, the context [...]
