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Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit.)Psychopathy is a personality disorder manifested in people who use a mixture of charm, manipulation, intimidation, and occasionally violence to control others, in order to satisfy their own selfish needs. Although the concept of psychopathy has been known for centuries, the FBI leads the world in the research effort to develop a series of assessment tools, to evaluate the personality traits and behaviors attributable to psychopaths.
Interpersonal traits include glibness, superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, and the manipulation of others. The affective traits include a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility. The lifestyle behaviors include stimulation-seeking behavior, impulsivity, irresponsibility, parasitic orientation, and a lack of realistic life goals.
Research has demonstrated that in those criminals who are psychopathic, scores vary, ranging from a high degree of psychopathy to some measure of psychopathy. However, not all violent offenders are psychopaths and not all psychopaths are violent offenders. If violent offenders are psychopathic, they are able to assault, rape, and murder without concern for legal, moral, or social consequences. This allows them to do what they want, whenever they want. Ironically, these same traits exist in men and women who are drawn to high-profile and powerful positions in society including political officeholders.
The relationship between psychopathy and serial killers is particularly interesting. All psychopaths do not become serial murderers. Rather, serial murderers may possess some or many of the traits consistent with psychopathy. Psychopaths who commit serial murder do not value human life and are extremely callous in their interactions with their victims. This is particularly evident in sexually motivated serial killers who repeatedly target, stalk, assault, and kill without a sense of remorse. However, psychopathy alone does not explain the motivations of a serial killer.
What doesn't go unnoticed is the fact that some of the character traits exhibited by serial killers or criminals may be observed in many within the political arena. While not exhibiting physical violence, many political leaders display varying degrees of anger, feigned outrage and other behaviors. They also lack what most consider a "shame" mechanism. Quite simply, most serial killers and many professional politicians must mimic what they believe, are appropriate responses to situations they face such as sadness, empathy, sympathy, and other human responses to outside stimuli.
Understanding psychopathy becomes particularly critical to law enforcement during a serial murder investigation and upon the arrest of a psychopathic serial killer. The crime scene behavior of psychopaths is likely to be distinct from other offenders. This distinct behavior can assist law enforcement in linking serial cases.
Psychopaths are not sensitive to altruistic interview themes, such as sympathy for their victims or remorse/guilt over their crimes. They do possess certain personality traits that can be exploited, particularly their inherent narcissism, selfishness, and vanity. Specific themes in past successful interviews of psychopathic serial killers focused on praising their intelligence, cleverness, and skill in evading capture.
Experts recognize that more research is needed concerning the links between serial murder and psychopathy, in order to understand the frequency and degree of psychopathy among serial murderers. This may assist law enforcement in understanding and identifying serial murderers.
Over the past twenty years, law enforcement and experts from a number of varying disciplines have attempted to identify specific motivations for serial murderers and to apply those motivations to different typologies developed for classifying serial murderers. These range from simple, definitive models to complex, multiple-category typologies that are laden with inclusion requirements. Most typologies are too cumbersome to be utilized by law enforcement during an active serial murder investigation, and they may not be helpful in identifying an offender.
As most homicides are committed by someone known to the victim, police focus on the relationships closest to the victim. This is a successful strategy for most murder investigations. The majority of serial murderers, however, are not acquainted with or involved in a consensual relationship with their victims.
For the most part, serial murder involves strangers with no visible relationship between the offender and the victim. This distinguishes a serial murder investigation as a more nebulous undertaking than that of other crimes. Since the investigations generally lack an obvious connection between the offender and the victim, investigators instead attempt to discern the motivations behind the murders, as a way to narrow their investigative focus.
Serial murder crime scenes can have bizarre features that may cloud the identification of a motive. The behavior of a serial murderer at crime scenes may evolve throughout the series of crimes and manifest different interactions between an offender and a victim. It is also extremely difficult to identify a single motivation when there is more than one offender involved in the series.
Identifying a homicide series is easier in rapidly-developing, high profile cases involving low risk victims. These cases are reported to law enforcement upon discovery of the crimes and draw immediate media attention.
In contrast, identifying a series involving high risk victims in multiple jurisdictions is much more difficult. This is primarily due to the high risk lifestyle and transitory nature of the victims. Additionally, the lack of communication between law enforcement agencies and differing records management systems impede the linkage of cases to a common offender.
While many political leaders will deny the assessment regarding their similarities with serial killers and other career criminals, it is part of a psychopathic profile that may be used in assessing the behaviors of many officials and lawmakers at all levels of government.
He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc.
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I would be interested in hearing more on the politicians traits, I mean, it starts to make sense when you read this.
prisonplanet.com/clinton-laughs-about-murder-of-gaddafi.html
Hmm. What about televangelists, wingnut radio hosts, investment fund managers...
What about these commonly associated traits:
bedwetting,firestarting, animal torturer, youthful offenders who have been sexually/physically abused by their drug/alcohol addled, dropout, single parents who also have been through the penal system.
ok, I see the assertions being made (about politicians having these traits, implicitly in similar rates as felons), but no study is cited, no prevalence data given, no analysis offered to substantiate the claims. Is this just your subjective observation, or is there a study with some data that backs your assertions? Because while your statement may be true, I don't see any reason to believe this is anything more than one man's off-the-cuff subjective qualititive perception of what he wants to believe is true. Just saying.
Although there are many systematic studies of serial killers, at least of those who have been jailed, I doubt that Kouri has done such studies on politicians, even those that have been jailed. So what we have is a nod to forensics, with its doubtful reputation combined with the usual anti government rant of those that want clean water and side walks but not taxes. Give me a break!
Maybe it should be a new requirement that a candidate at the Federal level should submit mental health records or undergo evaluation for these traits to check for eligibility...what if any anti-depressants they may have been prescribed should be made public.
Sociopaths/Psychopaths occur in roughly 5 percent of the population. In the USA, with about 300 million people, this translates to 15 MILLION SOCIOPATHS!! What are the odds of working with or living with at least one of these predators? They are compelled to acquire power, and generally resist scrutiny. Mirroring, acting and other fakery are some tools of their manipulation. They also love to amplify themselves through disciples or allies. Please look on the web for more info, they ARE all around us! Label the ones you know, tell others covertly, and undermine their goals! They fear illumination the most! Please! Sunshine is the best disinfectant!
This clearly sounds like another study that didn't go far enough with the right kinds of research needed to substantiate the statements quoted. I would like to see more on how politicians may or may not handle the constant stress of their jobs, what kinds of mental health histories are kept on them and perhaps something about family history.....
The conman, charmer subset of sociopathy is much more relevant to politicians.
And what about the "cereal killers" - those who tell us that excessive carbohydrates are good for us?
Here's the Wikipedia listing of Hare's indicators (does this remind you of any politicians you've seen recently?)
Factor1: Aggressive narcissism
1. Glibness/superficial charm
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Pathological lying
4. Cunning/manipulative
5. Lack of remorse or guilt
6. Shallow
7. Callous/lack of empathy
8. Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Factor2: Socially deviant lifestyle
1. Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
2. Parasitic lifestyle
3. Poor behavioral control
4. Promiscuous sexual behavior
5. Lack of realistic, long-term goals
6. Impulsivity
7. Irresponsibility
8. Juvenile delinquency
9. Early behavior problems
10. Revocation of conditional release
Traits not correlated with either factor
1. Many short-term marital relationships
2. Criminal versatility
I have seen some of this in kids (2) as young as five- the age at which you could reasonably ex
great discussion. i have read 'without conscience' and it's follow up 'snakes in suits'. i believe i have one in my family. it was after a nasty estate battle that we began to ask serious questions about this family member.
when we did our initial research we were spooked at the traits we were able to easily identify. we have taken steps to protect ourselves. however, i find myself using this knowledge gained, almost daily . i highly recommend both books. i keep them on my bookshelf. i am in no way connected to the law or law enforcement.
'The Authoritarians' is a study on the political side of psychopathy and their emotionally damaged followers - read about it on line at the University of Manitoba. Just search for 'the authoritarians pdf'
'Political Ponerology' is another work by multiple people in several disciplines written during the pre and post WWII era. It also deals with networks of sociopaths/psychopaths and their sadist/masochist/narcissist minions; and how they take over governments and externalize their sickness onto the population of normal people. Fairly technical, blew me away with its depth and conclusions.
In response to "Neaseno," I would like to recommend the following for further reading: "The People of The Lie: The Hope For Healing Human Evil," by M. Scott Peck, MD; "Un-Masking The Psychopath: Antisociatl Personality and Related Syndromes," Ed. William H. Reid, Darwin Dorr, John I. Walker and Jack w. Bonner, III; and the classic, "The Mask of Sanity," by Hervey Cleckly, MD. With respect to studies of children whose personality traits refelct antisocial tendencies, any of the work by the Polish/Swiss psychologist, Alice Miller.
Good stuff!
This pretty much correlates with Political Ponerology: www.ponerology.com
politicians are criminals. Most have some 'darkness' in their background which makes them 'blackmail-able'-something required to even run for public office! People who consistently vote for war and more war and seem to have a blood lust for it and also people who have questionable sexual practices are high on the list.
An author named Dr Scott Peck,PhD., of "The Road Less Travelled" fame wrote a book titled "The People of The Lie" aways back, was the first ever Scientific examination of the nature of Human Evil,as personified by Humanities Worst .....He noted many similarities between psychopaths and Politicians,Govt Agents who get to KILL (the Biggest Problems Humanity faces eternally,eh???? Great Reading.....His conclusion included fact The Worst Choose this Path intentionally and knowingly.
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PET scans brain atlas if serial killers/mass murders
They all have typical PET scan picture
Frontal and Temporal lobes of brain dysfinction.
Frontal lobes - craving for power and control
shameless, inconsiderate to others behavior
Temporal lobes - sexual perversion in clusters, including sadism,
and money as fetish, hate to people who are different from them.
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-enjoyment
Check out also
Interview with sociologist Gregory Klimov, leading participant
of CIA research on genocidal governments " Degenerates rule the world"
Frontal lobes also is responsible for making as Human being and connection with will of God
Jewiwh writer Henry Makow:
The conspiracy is against God, as God what to do?"
and Bendjamin Fredman on hidden history if thousands years of white slavery "Facts are facts".
And what about corporations? They also fit the description...
And what about corporations? They also fit the description...
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