Vick indicted in dog fighting case

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

No one has examined them because they usually kill themselves before authorities find them.

There were studies lonnnnggggg time ago on convicts. Because the doctors and others failed to get informed consent, then they caused human rights violations.

What I remember from reading some of those 1950's/1960's studies, was there were quite a few criminals that had the YY chromosome arrangement...

I know about the YY chromosome, but I was more interested in people like Ted Bundy's daughter, or others like her. It would be an interesting study...

[UGAalum94]

I think there are studies about the children of criminals generally being more likely to go to prison, which makes sense because you'd get some combination of nature and nurture. But I don't think I've ever read about with serial killers.

For some reason, a couple of years ago, I read a lot of books about profilers. I think it was a combination of watching too much true crime TV and hearing a really interesting NPR report about some young teenage boys in Chicago being wrongly convicted (some even confessed to a crime they didn't commit), and what had put them in the suspect pool was a profile created based on the Central Park jogger. So I made the mistake of reading several books about some of the earliest FBI profilers and their big cases. (I don't think I slept for about three months because what I read scared me so bad.)

But the early profilers did conduct interviews with any serial killers that were still alive, and they did seem to find patterns in their lives and behaviors. And I think that if they noticed a pattern of similar behavior in their children, it would have been mentioned.

They did find that torturing animals as children was pretty much universal.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I know about the YY chromosome, but I was more interested in people like Ted Bundy's daughter, or others like her. It would be an interesting study...

I am usure is Ted Bundy had a defined disabiling psychosis transmitted genetically, i.e. Parkinson's or Schizophrenia. I think his psychosis was purely environmental--I think he was physically and sexually abused as a child. Most children that grow up that way, become deranged sexual predators that serial kill, unless caught at an early age and heavily treated. Something about the sexual abuse that makes them confused and angry with themselves causing maladaptations to function in "normal soceity"...

These kinds of things ARE NOT seen in the Animal Kingdom. Animals normally fight each other to the death due to way too much hormones flying around associated with maleness. NOT ALL animals, but a lot of them. The research focuses on sex--those males that have sex with everything on site vs. the pair bond. And in some cases, switching the neurohormonal regulation in the voles and rats, makes the lab animals prefer the same sex...

Pitbull males even if untrained will fight after 3-6 months of age. You just keep them separated.

What Vick did from my readings, is grossly atrocious. PETA should have his head on a platter rather than ours...