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The final part of the undercover sting; again goes off without a hitch, with a number of arrests including a retired teacher/professor. An organisation called Perverted Justice has also played a major role in this operation by luring in the would-be sex offenders, setting up profiles posing as young girls and actively taking part in the online chats that sometimes last up to a couple of months before the predator finally comes to meet.

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For the vast majority of us, the holiday season around Christmas and New Years Eve is a time to have fun, drink, socialise and catch up with close friends and family, but for some unlucky people out there, it can be a time to dwell and remember those that are not around. While those that lose a loved one through ‘conventional’ means are able to grieve and obtain a certain level of closure there will always be the families and friends of people that have simply gone missing – there is no closure, no grieving, no certainty for these people. While we here at CrimePsych wish everybody a happy and safe Christmas and New Years, our hearts go out to those individuals who live with this reality day in and day out. Stay strong, never give up and we hope you see your loved ones again soon.

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Yet another day at the sting operation in Kentucky and more arrests, one guy made the silly mistake of attempting to escape and got tasered. Whether these guys have been arrested before for similar offences remains to be said but a 39 year old man coming to ‘hang out’ with a girl claiming to be 12 years old and home alone obviously has some deep seeded psychological problems.

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Whether they are labourers, teachers or anything in between it seems there are plenty of takers when it comes to chatting young girls in an attempt to get them into bed. Some men seem to be driving up to and including 5 hours in the hope of meeting (and having sex with) underage girls. The one thing that seems standard across the board with all these guys: they regret it once they are caught.

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Erich Fromm, the well known personality theorist that one introduced in The Syndrome of Decay & Growth used to also study historical documents of prominent persons in history in an attempt to reconstruct a psychological portrait of said person. One of the more famous ones he conducted, that he thought demonstrated the epitome of the syndrome of decay, was Adolf Hitler, who he wrote several papers about. (more…)

Eric Fromm (1900 – 1980) was a well known personality theorist who was initially part of the Freudian school of thought before breaking away. He suggests that people who are psychologically disturbed may also have the inability to love and fail to establish meaningful unions. He focused the bulk of his attention to three main psychological disorders which he used to put forward his ideas known as the ‘syndrome of decay’ and the ‘syndrome of growth’.

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Schizophrenia is unfortunately one of those mental disorders that suffers from not only distorted media headlines but the affects of popular culture with over 70% of characters on television with said disorder portrayed as being violent with more than one in every five being portrayed as a murderer. Contributions from these sources have helped create the commonly held belief that not only does schizophrenia mean a sufferer has a split personality but that people with this disorder are dangerous. The truth of the matter is, and research supports these facts, that people who suffer from schizophrenia are no more violent than people who do not have the illness.

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Local and federal law enforcement agencies have been working together recently on sting operations in Kentucky in an attempt to catch online sexual predators playing their games. Dateline (USA, NBC) has been able to participate in some of these operations, and have interviewed some of the men being caught out. With seven cameras outside the house and five more inside these guys don’t have a chance of denying what they are trying to do.

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