Dr. Michael Stone Essay

Dr. Michael Stone is a forensic psychiatrist and professor at Columbia University who has classified the levels of evil on a 22 point scale. He is the presenter of the show Most Evil, which features profiles of murderers, serial killers, mass murderers and psychopaths. The levels are one is for impulsive killing, two is for crimes of passion, seven for narcissistic killers, 10 is for Selfish murders, to remove obstacles, 14 is for acts of mercy, 16 is for multiple vicious acts, 17 is for ruthless predatory and manipulative killers, and 22 is for those that perform prolonged torture, were controlling and abusive, and had some religious aspect and often enlisting others and discarding victims. Two groups that are not on Dr. Stone’s scale are
Stone believes that 90% of serial killers meet the standards of psychopathy, love control and domination. About half on them are loner who cannot sustain a relationship and are trying to get back at those who have abused them. An example of this is a mass murderer in Texas that killed close to 70 people. He was abused and neglected by his mother as a child, by chose not to injure her. Instead, he savagely murdered other people, mostly women. This is classified as a love-hate relationship because the killer would rather harm other people, but not the parent. Murderers of this type have most likely suffered damaged parts of their brains that control sexual functioning and self-control. Since women have an anti-social nature, they view murder as a
I would place Lecter at number 17 because of his multiple cannibalistic attacks, and manipulation like with the police that were bringing him food, while he was in the huge cage. He expresses psychopathic behavior for having no remorse for his victims. He appears to have a love-hate relationship with Clarice because when he escapes, Lecter has no intention of harming