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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cullen, Dave

Titel

What a Killer Thinks: Is the Colorado Shooter depressed, insane, or psychotic? Anatomy of a downward sprial

Ist Teil von

• Newsweek, 2012-08, Vol.160 (6)

Ort / Verlag

New York: Newsweek Publishing LLC

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]a minority view pushed back, and hard: the hair, the eyes, the sensational getup for the attack were a little too cute: a cold-blooded killer, playing crazy. Do not look for a unified theory of mass murder, a single coherent drive. Sadistic psychopaths are callous, vicious creatures, probably born that way, with cruelty to animals and a fascination with fire typically showing up by grade school. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force estimates that 6 percent of American adolescents--2 million kids--suffer clinical depression.