Psychopathy is a dangerous personality disorder that disrupts the normal functioning of the human brain. As far as this disorder is correlated with social and communicational difficulties, morality and traditional values are disturbed in the psychopath’s mentality. As a result, many psychopaths are inclined to the committing crimes because they have no moral barriers in the cognition. However, there is no direct correlation between the particular criminal acts and this mental disorder.
The central aspect here is the disturbing values and morality, which other mental illnesses can cause. Psychopathy is just an aggravating factor for people with criminal proclivities. The criminals with psychopathy have particular behavioral peculiarities such as attracting others’ attention, the desire to overcome all the social limitations, and the absence of logical aim to commit crimes.
Psychopathy is a mental disorder that is usually correlated with communicational difficulties or other socially conditioned problems. Criminal psychopaths often have severe psychological problems in their relations with their families (Beaver et al. 4840). Such problems as the lack of parents’ attention and inappropriate moral education can cause difficulties while functioning in society. As a result, people feel lonely and unaccepted by the whole world.
And the only way to satisfy their desire to be noticed psychopaths see in the law-breaking actions (Boisvert et al. 57). Considering the fact that the moral limitations do not exist in their minds, they often cross the line and murder others. Moreover, psychopaths are often considered to commit the most devious crimes (Boisvert et al. 53). This is also caused by the desire to express themselves in a way that terrifies hateful society.
Psychopaths despise the social limitations and people who follow these rules. Breaking the laws preventing people from falling into anarchy is the genuine pleasure for the disturbed cognition of psychopaths. Such criminals are often pretty clever and commit dangerous and violent crimes challenging society. Many of them often implement a particular message in their murders (Beaver et al. 4842). For example, the world-famous criminal Keith Hunter Jesperson always left a smiling face on the crime scene (Boisvert et al. 62). Thus, being rejected by the whole world, psychopath criminals try to disturb society through malicious crimes and show everyone the violence they have experienced.
A psychopath’s mind cannot be treated similarly to a healthy person’s one because of the absence of morality. Normal people will never understand the motives of people with mental disorders. Such criminals have their personal reasons leading them to break the laws. These motives do not fall to the ordinary rules of logic. Thereby the psychopaths’ behavior terrifies people because they cannot understand the underlying causes of such violence (Beaver et al. 4839).
Psychologists believe that social conditions cause the disproportionate representation of violence in most cases and that genetic inherence leads psychopaths to commit crimes in less than twenty cases (Beaver et al.4839). Thus, aggressiveness, violence, and unpredictability in crimes are other peculiar features of psychopaths’ behavior.
The psychopaths have particular behavioral features, including extreme violence, rejection of the powers regulating the society, and unpredictability in crimes. The main reason for such behavior patterns is mental disorders. As stated above, psychopathy is often an acquired problem though it can also be passed on the genetic level. However, society itself creates malicious people who seek to be noticed, at least like the villains in most cases. Psychopath criminals require timely psychological help to avoid the dangerous implication for themselves and the people around them. The mentioned behavioral patterns can be noticed by discussing world-views and values of the people with psychopathy.
Works Cited
Beaver, Kevin et al. “Psychopathic Personality Traits and the Successful Criminal.” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, vol. 62, no. 15, 2018, pp. 4834-4853. Web.
Boisvert, Danielle et al. “A Behavioral Genetic Analysis of the Cooccurrence Between Psychopathic Personality Traits and Criminal Behavior.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, vol. 35, no. 1, 2019, pp. 52-68. Web.