Cradle of Crime Series
June 4th, 2009
Utah Stories takes a comprehensive look at how juvenile offenders become hardened career criminals.
A six-part story series by Anand Rao
Examining Juvenile Violence
Utah Stories takes a comprehensive look at how juvenile offenders become hardened career criminals.The Gangs connection
The recent spate of drive-by shooting and drug crimes bring to focus an increase in gang related crimes.Manu "The Animal" Cares
Previously most wanted and dangerous, an ex-gangster speaks about his life and future.Schools Rules & Kids Behaving Like Fools
How the involvement of educators can make or break future criminalsAloha Coach! We love you!
Local police officer uses football to rehabilitate convicts.The Psychology Behind Crime
Is crime the result of a dysfunctional mind? Utah Stories presents the views of an expert who trains law enforcement officers in criminal psychology.Reader Comments
Stan Stanfield
I'm sure that a dysfunctional family upbringing has a role to play in all this. But so does something else of a dysfunctional nature.
In their book 'A Mind to Crime', Anne Moir, PhD and David Jessel wrote in detail about the studies that have been done showing that many violent persons (particularly males) and criminals in general had actual brain dysfunctions. The research is to the point that it is possible to run a PET scan on a child's brain and determine if he may only have ADHD, say, or if he may slip over into criminality. It sounds a bit science fictionish, but the research is there. So No. 1: There could be a screening of kids, to keep tabs on those who may have a predisposition to violence.
Before I get to what may be causing this brain dysfunctionality, let me mention my point No. 2:
The FBI man who started the concept of 'profiling' (sorry, I've forgotten his name) interviewed in prison many men who were serial killers, and found an intriguing pattern in their childhoods, which appeared over and over in their case histories. The pattern was so pronounced that it even got a name attached to it: the 'homicidal triad'. These traits were:
(1) cruelty to pets/animals;
(2) excessive bed-wetting; and
(3) fire-starting (pyromania).
The FBI profiler didn't go any further into their histories than that, ie, into any medical histories; he just commented on what he found out. But there is a common denominator between the Moir/Jessel summaries, of a brain-damage factor in the 'criminal' mind, and the 'homicidal triad' set of symptoms observed by the FBI profiler: because the latter are all symptoms of the same thing, ie, brain damage.
What could be causing this brain damage?
Enter the third book in this overview of this matter: the book by Harris L. Coulter, PhD - arguably the US's foremost medical historian - titled 'Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality'. In it he details the links between the new medical modality of vaccinations - widely engaged in, in mass vaccination programs, starting in the 40s and 50s - and a whole host of adverse conditions, including those known as the likes of ADD & ADHD & dyslexia & dyspraxia & autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Some of the symptoms of kids with brain damage:
(1), (2), and (3) above.
Dr. Coulter's contentions: (a) There are children with genetic predispositions to be damaged by vaccines; and (b) There has been an upsurge of 'social violence and criminality' ever since the advent of the mass vaccination programs, which are no respecter of persons, ie, one size fits all, in the minds of medical professionals who didn't pay enough attention to people as individuals, in their haste and desire to try to achieve 'herd immunity'.
There's more to this story. But that should be enough, to give some individuals interested in this subject something to go on.
