Serial Killers and Forensic Psychology (2021 Rerun)
Added 2024-08-06 11:00:04 +0000 UTC[Rerun] Did Ted Bundy have DID? Why do serial killers kill? Are they evil? Is the death penalty ethical? Why do we send people to prison? Dr. Kirk and Humberto discuss.
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October 11, 2021
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I’m likely an outlier here, but I tend to see both serial killing and mass shootings as reflective of human population pressures. I’m not saying it’s skillful behavior at all or that it should result in legal leniency.
ccreel64
2025-06-06 19:18:57 +0000 UTCCan you possibly make an episode about James Fallon, the neuroscientist who discovered that he had a psychopathic brain?
sofia guicking
2024-09-20 08:20:01 +0000 UTCI always thought that an evil person is someone who purposely causes suffering in order to get pleasure from it (like BTK), or just to fulfill their own needs, like con men. To me, the religious aspect seems to be an American thing.
sofia guicking
2024-09-19 12:22:14 +0000 UTCIn Norway we had high reofending rate, so in 1997, we made some changes. I would recommend watching this short 23 minutes documentary when american correctional staff union members and labor leaders goes to Halden, our max security prison, (Anders B. Breivik, the mass shooter from 2011, was in prison here) https://youtu.be/ygxKFG_airA?si=4Ac-Gd23uM8in8Gg Also, this documetary is quite good on Halden from 2020 as well; https://youtu.be/kVEXRth-hJs?si=rlo0ugF7x_1-Aw1v I take my kids every year to their Christmas marked😄 We all love it verry much🤩
Elisabeth Espegard Jensen
2024-08-08 05:35:06 +0000 UTCA few thoughts: 1) There's a hilarious Amy Schumer skit of a classic tv procedural detective show, she plays a women with multiple personalities but who's really bad at doing accents. 2) Regarding your discussion of brain scans, there as a famous study (Bennett et al 2009) that used fMRI scans to show with very high statistical significance (p<0.001) that a dead fish could read human emotions. What it really showed was that the normal procedures and statistical methods of brain scan studies at the time were complete garbage and researchers needed much more rigorous methods. 3) When it comes to prison as a deterrent, criminological studies seem to show conclusively that the severity of the sentence does not deter as much as the likelihood of having to face the sentence. In other words spending money increasing sentences from 2 to 10 years (and mandatory minimums) do not deter as well as spending that money on making sure people who commit the crimes are caught. 4) I think that y'alls discussion of "free will" was a little bit muddled in its terms. There's a difference in "free will" as Berto seemed to be discussing it as a philosophical discussion of fate, multiverse theory, and whether people's choices are predetermined. And Kirk's discussion of free will as the legal/moral responsibility for an action, that is, culpability.
Teo
2024-08-08 03:15:01 +0000 UTCI cannot request that you and Umberto cover the documentary "The Act of Killing" enough. The topic of mass killing/political killing/genocide, i.e. how people get socialized to do horrible things, and how society responds to atrocities in their history is its own topic compared to individual murderers/serial killers.
Teo
2024-08-06 23:09:39 +0000 UTC
