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Friday, March 21, 2014

Mandatory registration for psychopaths

Sociopaths are a wide behavioural group, but they tend to become some of the most depraved dangerous people in society. That is a generalization, but the stats bear out the reality that psychopaths are most likely to offend and cause damage to society. As Jon Ronson wrote, most Scottish psychopaths end up in London jails.

Since we know that, it stands to reason that registering them is equal to that of paedophiles or convicted criminals.  Therefore society has a vested interest in detecting and tracking them. When they are found to possess psychopathic personalities, the education system and the health system should identify them. Nothing prejudicial, a therapist fills out a form and they are entered into a database and they must maintain their address with local government.   That's it.

 Since cities are hard pressed to resource all police work it makes sense to collect as much data as possible. Like a list of previous offenders, a DNA database, a finger print registry, and of course a sex offender registration they all provide data for police to start with; if a crime involves psychopathic behaviour it would help to know if there are any around at the time.  It is a unique factor that reduces the burden. Being on a list does not mean they are guilty, it simply assists investigations.

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