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Sociopath: Robert John Maudsley (1953)

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10473198 VICTIMOLOGY [SOWK 341] LECTURER: MS.ABIGAIL LABBY ASSIGNMENT 1 DATE: 28TH SEPTEMBER, 2015 10473198 Introduction Sociopathy is a mental condition where an individual has a lack of interest in, or care for, the rules of a society. The term denotes a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience. Notable sociopaths include Ted Bundy (1948-1989), Notorious Armed robber Ataa Ayi, Brian Dugan, and Robert John Maudsley among many others. They are tagged as sociopathic because they have engaged in a wide variety of crimes, including armed robbery, murder or man slaughter, rape, decapitation and many more. This paper seeks …show more content…

He totally disregards societal rules and norms. He does not kill for the fun of it; he kills merely because he felt it was his duty to do so. Once, in 1984, when a new guard attempted to open his cell, Maudsley snickered and said, “Look, if you come in here, I’m going to have to kill you. It’s not personal. I don’t hate you and I’m not angry. It’s just something I’ll have to do.” SOURCE: 10 Monumental Malignantly Narcissistic Sociopaths – Listverse.com In total, his murders added up to four. In 1974, Maudsley garroted a man who picked him up for sex after he was shown pictures of children the man had sexually abused. He was arrested and taken to Broadmoor Hospital for the criminally insane in 1977. Here, Maudsley together with another inmate, John Cheeseman took another inmate convicted for molesting a child; locked and tortured him for up to nine hours and subsequently killed him. His final two murders occurred one afternoon in 1978 during his term in Wakefield Prison for man slaughter; where he garroted and stabbed Salney Darwood; hunted Bill Roberts in his cell; stabbed him and crushed his skull against the wall, then ate a part of his brain with a …show more content…

BACKGROUND Robert John Maudsley had a bitter childhood. Maudsley was born in June 1953, the fourth child of a Liverpool lorry driver. Before his second birthday, Robert, his brothers Paul and Kevin, and sister Brenda were all taken into care after they were found to be suffering from 'parental neglect'. [The Guardian, 2013]. At sixteen, Maudsley worked as a rent boy to support his drug addiction. Subsequently, he was suicidal and saw various psychiatrists. Several times, Maudsley was recorded saying that he heard voices in his head saying he had to kill his parents. THEORIES Various theories can be used to explain Maudsley’s outlook of life. To begin with, Attachment is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another across time and space (Ainsworth, 1973; Bowlby, 1969). Maudsley’s attachment was with the nuns and children at the orphanage where he spent the better part of his toddlerhood. It was however broken with his return to his parents’ home, coupled with the series of abuse he endured over the

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