Natural Instincts Or Evil Trap

Charles was born November 12, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio (Jennifer Rosenburg). His mother, Kathleen Maddox, gave birth to Charles at the young age of sixteen (Jennifer Rosenburg). At the age of thirteen, Charles stole a vehicle and committed robberies (About Charles Manson). This was just the beginning for Charles, he resided in boys homes, jail, and prison most of his life. After Charles was paroled his second time in 1967, he began searching for people to control. “While Charles was in San Francisco, he started attracting groups of young drop outs and runaways” (About Charles Manson). “He took advantage of this confusion and injected himself into their lives as a father figure and a lover. Manson called his group the 'family' and they drifted in and out of towns,” Criminal Profiling

Manson was happy with the death of those six people, but was upset with the sloppiness of that night’s murders (“Manson Family Murders”). “Last night was too messy, Manson told the group when they assembled back into their bunkhouse. This time I’m going to show you how to do it” (Bugliosi 355). After driving for hours Manson stopped at a house in the suburbs. He had his ‘Family’ drive around the block while he looked through the window. After a few minutes Manson returned to the car and told them that the house had pictures of children. He continued on to

Charles Manson is an extremely intelligent and persuasive man, that created his own cult and manipulated people to kill for him, which led to his never being found guilty of committing murder, although serving time in jail for conspiracy to commit murder. His followers carried out several notorious murders in the late 1960’s. The cult was known as the Manson Family. He was roughly in his thirties when the cult was recognized. Born in Ohio in 1934 he did not have much of a childhood. He lived out most of his childhood moving around. His mother couldn’t take care of him so Charles spent his youth at homes of various relatives. He also spent large amounts of time in special reform schools and boys homes. By the age nine Manson had already began stealing. Burglary and stealing cars were added to his repertoire. As he grew older his crimes became more frequent.

Firstly, let us look at what exactly a sociopath is defined as. Sociopath by definition is an antisocial personality disorder (APD), it is also known as psychopathy. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5), an antisocial personality disorder is “a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since the age of 15.” Three of the following traits must also be identifiable in these people; failure to conform to social norms, fail

Manson’s life would most likely have gone differently if he had a different childhood. He grew up with his aunt and uncle for most of his young childhood, because his father left and his mother was in jail for a number of years. When she got out and he went to live with her, she didn’t want him and tried to get him put in foster homes and the like. When he was sent away to a school for boys, he ran away to find her again. This time he understood that his mother didn’t want him when she would not take him

Charles Manson had two disorders. He was schizophrenic and he had a paranoid delusional disorder. His mother was a prostitute, and only sixteen years old when she had him. When he was younger, he was aggressively anti-social. He spent most of his middle school and high school years in three boy’s homes and in juvenile detention. After a while, he became the leader in what’s

“Charles Manson was an illegitimate, unplanned child, born to a 16-year-old mother. His mother was irresponsible, into drugs and criminal activity, and unable to care for a child. She reportedly sold him when he was a young child for a pitcher of beer” (Henderson). Sounds like an amazing childhood, right. Wrong. Charles Manson was bounced around from house to house, and because of that, his childhood was not that great. Because of his nerve wrecking childhood, Manson was bound to be a criminal. As the years went by and time took its course, Manson decided that he wanted to take a new turn in life and become a star.

To the naked eye, a sociopath could not stand out from a crowd. While the sociopath is unable to fully understand the emotions of others, they are capable but rather highly adept at mimicking them and might appear to be charming and normal at first. Yet beneath the surface there is a lack of remorse of guilt.. Sociopaths are usually defined as people displaying antisocial behavior which is mainly characterized by lack of empathy towards others that is coupled with display of abnormal moral conduct and inability to conform with the norms of the society. People suffering from antisocial personality disorder are often referred to as sociopaths. Some of the other characteristics that sociopaths may display are stealing, lying, lack of remorse for others and towards living beings, irresponsible behavior, impulsive behavior, drug or alcohol abuse, problems with the law, violating

Richard DeMargeno, a criminologist, believed Manson could control these people by taking the place of their father figures. “It wasn’t a very difficult process. He was dealing with lonely insecure people in need of a father figure, people who didn’t have much ego to begin with. What he did, in effect, was to tear down that ego and substitute himself, thus gaining enormous control over his followers.” To his girls, Charles Manson was the man of their dreams, their knight in shining armor.

As I’ve said previously, the life of Charles Manson revolved around interpersonal violence. From an early age Manson was the victim of child neglect – his mother (Kathleen Maddox) would leave him with neighbors, “for an hour, then disappear for days or weeks,”

Charles Manson had a long history of neglect and abandonment since his childhood and this may have played a role in the development of his personality. The psychoanalytic analysis could argue that since he spent his childhood and feeling he had no control of his life due to the instability, this could have led to his personality traits.

The two perspectives that seem to best explain the life of Charles Manson are sociocultural and behavioral. The behavioral perspective represents learned behaviors. At an early age Manson was around drugs, drinking, and prostitution. Naturally Manson learned that these things were ok. His mother was a prostitute that wanted nothing to do with her son; she also had a drug problem. Manson grew up in and out of prison and developed a drug and alcohol problem. Manson could not have a functioning relationship, his first wife left him due to him being in and out of jail. Manson second wife was a prostitute and divorced Manson after he was arrested for pimping, stealing, and conning. After being released from prison Manson headed to San Francisco where he played guitar. Manson began to develop followers. Manson developed a need for followers, he and his followers moved to a ranch and soon it became a cult compound for “the family.” The consequences of Manson’s actions were reinforced each time he was thrown into prison but let right back out, or each time he was allowed probation. He was able to commit the crimes knowing he would just be back in jail and shortly

Psychopathy is a disease of the mind, in which the psychological state of someone has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric evaluation. Psychopaths have no concern for the feelings of others and a complete disregard of any sense of social obligation. Psychopaths are characterized by lack of empathy, poor impulse control and manipulative behaviors. They use charm, manipulation, intimidation, and the use of severe to mild violence to satisfy their own needs.

Charles Manson lived a difficult childhood. With a fifteen-year-old mother who was sent away to prison when he was four, Manson quickly developed a narcissistic

November 12,1934, 16-year-old prostitute Kathleen Maddox gave birth to a baby boy (Allan,2010). When the baby was born, she didn’t know what to name him, so she gave him the name “No Name” Maddox for the first weeks of his life. Soon after he was given the name Charles Milles Maddox. Charles did not know who his father was, but Kathleen would soon run off and get married to a man by the name of William Eugene Manson, who would give Charles his last name of Manson. Charles would use the last name Manson for the remainder of his life. Charles would go neglected for the majority of his childhood life by his mother who was a severe alcoholic. During his life, Charles was tossed from relatives and foster homes. Kathleen and Charles were soon abandoned by William years after their marriage which caused Kathleen to go into deep depression.