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Should society institutionalize psychopaths, even if they haven't
broken the law?
The United Kingdom, partly in response to the 1993 abduction and
murder of two-year-old James Bulger by two ten-year-olds, and partly
in response to PCL-R data, is in the process of creating a new legal
classification called Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
(DSPD). As it stands, the government proposes to allow authorities to
detain people declared DSPD, even if they have not committed a crime.
(Sample text from one of the Web sites that have sprung up in
response: "I was diagnosed with an untreatable personality disorder
by a doctor who saw me for ten minutes, he later claimed I was a
psychopath. . . . Please don't let them do this to me; don't let them
do it to anybody. I'm not a danger to the public, nor are most
mentally ill people.")
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http://www.hare.org/links/saturday.html
"People Who experience mood swings, fear, voices and visions"
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