Anti-Social and Psychopath

Running Head: ANTI-SOCIAL AND PSYCHOPATH
ANTI-SOCIAL AND PSYCHOPATH
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1ANTI-SOCIAL AND PSYCHOPATH
According to Wall, Wygant and Sellbom (2015) psychopath is the initial stage of
antisocial activities. In other words, the psychopathic tendencies of a person can leads to the
antisocial character. Hence, psychopathic trend can be rehabilitated but antisocial characters
should be punished.
In case of Gacy, he was an antisocial because he deliberately killed teenagers and tried to
run away from investigation. The psychological investigation also suggested that he was cold
blooded and tried to escape from the crime scene. However, in case of Yates, she was suffering
from mental disorder and she had confessed her crimes. The psychological analysis also
mentioned her as psychologically retarded that should be cured in rehabilitation.
In case of Gacy, the theory of Anti-social personality disorder (APD) can be used as the
rightful understanding where as Yates was suffering from Psychopathic personality disorder
traits that influenced her to commit the crimes.
In this case, the APD theory can be applied in order to make the anti-social behaviour
into a nocturnal social murderer. As Wygant et al. (2016) advocated that the role of the APD is to
create a megalomaniac and self-obsessed personality trait that is highly influenced by cleansing
the society for his own sake. Actually, the person having APD loved to kill others out of his
frustration and personal grudge. He is highly motivated in committing crimes with full body and
mind.
The benefit of studying the brain of a serial killer will lead towards understanding the
brain mapping and the possible behavioural approach that instigated the person to become a
serial killer. The major problem regarding the study of serial killer’s brain is to understand the
complexities of the brain mapping. As a matter of fact, the brain functionality is quite different