Topic > Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer - 523

Watching this tragic documentary left me with many questions. I can connect this documentary to more than one theory I learned in class, but I think the best theory that explains what I saw is the Psychological School of Criminology. This documentary is a vivid picture of how a person's life can devastate them psychologically and turn them into something deplorable. According to the Psychological School of Criminology, crime results from inappropriate conditioned behavior or abnormal, inappropriate or dysfunctional mental processes arising from the personality. Faulty or abnormal mental processes have a variety of causes, including a diseased mind, inappropriate learning, or inadequate conditioning, usually in early childhood. This theory fits best with Aileen's documentary: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer. All mental or psychological harm was caused to her during her childhood. All of this has impacted her to the point where she no longer has any respect for herself. Aileen experienced many difficulties during her childhood. How one might consider his sexually abused grandfather...