Biological Criminal Behavior Essay

A mentally ill teenage named Jessica Roger was born to Joan and Kevin Roger. As a young girl Roger’s mother was verbally abusive to her and her sister, she even went as far as trying to kill her husband. When little Roger was about eleven years old her mother left them with their alcoholic father. Roger ended up in prison for biting her sister and other acts because of her disorder, eventually she committed suicide while serving her time in a place where she just didn't belong. Although her mother showed remorse after her death and said, “she accepts blame, maybe too much, for what happened to her Jet”. On the other hand her father was unapologetic for his drinking “I still drink. It’s legal”. Roger sent her parents countless letter of how she was feeling but they didn’t do anything until after her death. Are you wonder how a mentally ill sixteen year old girl ends up on prison?

Described the DSM-5 signs and symptoms you observed for Shelly, Polly, Brittany and Alisa. Be thorough and specific

She didn't realize how much mental illness there was in her own family, from depression to bipolar disorder—which can contribute to postpartum psychosis. In her initial stages, she remained undiagnosed and untreated. She kept her secrets from everyone.” (Ramsland, 2008) In June of 1999 Andrea was started to feel the affects of her major depressive order. She called her husband and told him to come home as soon as possible. When Rusty Yates arrived at their residence he found he wife shaking with no control over it and chewing violently on her fingers. This is when she was first hosiptalized for trying to attempt suicide by overdosing on pills. “The medical staff described Andrea as evasive in discussing her problems. However, on June 24 she was prescribed an antidepressant and released.” (Montaldo, n/a)

Mr. and Mrs. Lawson brought their 4-year-old adopted daughter, Clara, to see Dr. Mason, a psychiatrist. Clara was polite in greeting Dr. Mason, but did not smile and kept her gaze down as she took a seat. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson sat next to Clara and began explaining their concerns. They described Clara as a quiet child who has recently begun throwing temper tantrums, during which she is inconsolable. Her sleep and eating patterns have changed, and she no longer wants to go to preschool.

Mary, a 31-year-old single mother of three children (ages 9, 5, and 3) has been seeing Annabelle, a mental health counselor at a community mental health center for about 4 months. She has become increasingly anxious over past few weeks and reports that she feels frightened all the time, is unable to sleep through the night, and worries that “something horrible is going to happen.” She also admits to having a “couple of drinks” during the evening several times a week. Mary shared during her last session with Annabelle that she is very worried that she is a horrible mother and is afraid that her children will be taken away and placed in foster care.

It’s been almost fourteen years since Andrea Yates drowned and killed her five children in the bathroom of their home. She confessed to her husband, Rusty, and to the police of her crime. She was 36 years old at the time and had a history postpartum psychosis as well as postpartum depression. In Andrea’s mind, she believed that she was not a good mother and that she was the Devil. During her first trial, in 2002, Andrea was convicted of capital murder but that conviction was overturned during a second trial, in 2006, and she was found not guilty by reason of insanity. She has been in a mental facility for the past eight years.

For several years Fiona Berman and her family were abused mentally and physically by inhuman entities.

"Mitchell's patients lost much of themselves as people" (53).  Gilman herself, after sinking into a deep depression, was sent to Mitchell in Philadelphia for his rest cure.  After a month of treatment Mitchell concluded that there was nothing wrong with her and sent her home with these instructions: "Live as domestic a life as possible.  Have your child with you at all times.  Lie down an hour after each meal.  Have but two hours of intellectual life a day.  And never touch pen, brush or pencil as long as you live." (Gilman, Autobiography 62).  Gilman followed these instructions for several months until she came extremely close to losing her mind.  Says Gilman of this time: "I made a rag baby, hung it on the doorknob and played with it.  I would crawl into remote closets and under beds to hide from the grinding pressure of that profound distress." (63).  It is exactly this situation that lead Charlotte Perkins Gilman to write her eerily accurate tale of one woman's forced regression into insanity.

1. According to Chris, he does not trust his parents. He does not feel like he can talk to them. He has referred to them as cold hearted. Although Chris has requested an evaluation by a psychologist for schizophrenia, his parents have not arranged an evaluation. Chris reports he has hurt his mother. On one occasions she pulled his hair, after this he hit her and would have killed her by pushing her out the window or down the stairs if his brother had not stopped him. Chris reports that his likes to hang out with his brother. He stated that his brother is his only source of support. Chris’s mother was called for an interview, she stated “Can’t I have one day off, one day off from dealing with

I was codependent and enabled her bad habits/babied her and sometimes felt like a mom. •Andrea thought I was overly critical and too honest about myself, her, and people we met. I was not tolerant of traits that made me uncomfortable, example a friend who laughed at a mentally ill man and made rude comments. •I'm a bit of perfectionist.

Four years after the Tylenol murders in which the killer was never found, Stella Nickell is accused and arrested for putting cyanide in Excedrin. She grew up poor and at 16 years old, gave birth to her daughter Cindy. At 22, she met a mechanic named Bruce Nickell. They were together for 12 till a day in 1986 when Bruce came home with a headache and took four extra-strength Excedrin, and collapsed. Doctors thought it was emphysema, but Stella refused to believe that. Upon hearing that Susan (Sue) Snow died from ingesting Excedrin that was laced with cyanide, she took down the lot number and confirmed that it matched the bottle she had. Pain relievers were swept off the shelves and thoroughly examined and 5 bottles of Excedrin

Reporter noted Brandi doesn’t have any special needs or learning disabilities. Reporter noted she has noticed a change in Brandi’s behavior; she was withdrawn and crying so she called her outside the classroom to speak to her. Brandi asked could her friend Liberty Webber stand there as support. Brandi reports her mom is not a good person; she talks negative to her and always downing her. She smokes but its not weed; its bad stuff. Her mother allows her 14 year old brother drink. When her mother really gets mad with her she makes her go stay at her dad’s house, which it is no better there. She is scared of her father (street person) because he has a weapon in the home and he has shot at someone; there is a lot of bad stuff happening. She continued to noted a couple months ago (2015) she had to stay at her dad’s house and she woke up with no clothes on and she couldn’t remember what happened.

In today’s society, there is a surprising amount of criminal research done by sociologists but most of our explanations can be better explained by biological and psychological approaches. Why does crime exist in all cultures? No matter where you go or visit you can be sure that there is crime occurring. Its important to remember that there are quite a few explanations for the causation of crime, but I will do my best to include them all. Let’s begin by examining the biological explanations of crime.

The Tinning children fell victims to their Munchausen mother, Marybeth. Back in 1972, Jennifer, Mr. and Mrs. Tinning’s eight year old daughter had passed away from acute meningitis. As a very detached and cold husband already, Mr. Tinning showed no support or sympathy towards his grieving wife after their daughter’s passing. It did however bring a wave of sympathy from family and friends. Just shy of 3 weeks following Jennifer’s death, Marybeth had to rush her two year old son to the hospital where he was pronounced dead due to a “viral infection” accompanied by a seizure disorder. Unfortunately no autopsy was performed. The once lonely and ignored practical nurse just had to experience not losing just one, but two children within only 3 weeks time. Marybeth could not help but notice how the deaths of her children brought a tremendous amount of attention and sympathy. Now remember it is only 1972, it wasn’t until a couple years later in 1977 that medical field and law enforcement became more aware of this upcoming condition that could lead to homicidal motives. Six weeks after the second child, Joseph’s death, calamity hit the Tinning family when four year old Barbra had passed. Although suspicious were growing after now a third child from the Tinning family had died, all foul play was ruled out due to cause of death being cardiac arrest. Roughly a year and a half later after Barbra’s unexpected death and two prior, their two week old son died in the hospital while being treated for a mysterious illness brought in by Mrs. Tinning. Unable to identify the cause of death, the pathologist recorded it as a SIDS case. Nathan Tinning, their five month old died in September of

Balancing young adult life along with caring for ailing parent was something I could identify with Andrea. It seemed as if Andrea needed to put her personal life on hold to care for her mother however, her sister maintained her own marriage and family. Not to mention, the mother refused homecare services up until the end leaving the care mostly to Andrea. Not to be insensitive but why should all the responsibility fall on Andrea at least that is how I perceived it to be. It is my belief this constant care she gave to her mother over those years is what made the loss of her mother harder to handle. She needed advance into an adult role before her time, while trying to exist in her present life. The grief felt was heart felt for the reason