Scale Of Evil

[AmyW]

I was watching 'BIOGRAPHY' tonight and it featured Dr. Michael Stone and his 'Scale Of Evil'. He was studying murderers who work in pairs. It was really interesting. I wanted to share the info with everyone.


The scale of evil used on the show is subjective, although many would agree that the killers featured on the show are, indeed, evil.

Dr. Michael Stone puts killers into different categories based on criteria he developed.

Category Criteria

01 Those who kill in self-defense and do not show psychopathic tendencies

02 Jealous lovers who, though egocentric or immature, are not psychopathic

03 Willing companions of killers: aberrant personality—probably impulse-ridden, with antisocial traits

04 Killed in self-defense, but had been extremely provocative towards the victim

05 Traumatized, desperate people who kill abusive relatives and other (like to support a drug habit) but lack significant traits. Genuinely remorseful.

06 Impetuous, hotheaded murderers, yet without marked psychopathic features

07 Highly narcissistic not distinctly psychopathic people with a psychotic core who kill people close to them (jealously an underlying motive)

08 Non psychopathic people with smoldering rage who kill when rage is ignited

09 Jealous lovers with psychopathic features

10 Killers of people who were "in the way" or who killed, for example, witnesses (egocentric but not distinctly psychopathic)

11 Psychopathic killers of people "in the way"

12 Power-hungry psychopaths who killed when they were "cornered"

13 Killers with inadequate, rage-full personalities who "snapped"

14 Ruthlessly self-centered psychopathic schemers

15 Psychopathic "cold-blooded" spree or multiple murders

16 Psychopaths committing multiple vicious acts

17 Sexually perverse serial murderers torture-murderers (among the males rape is the primary motive with murder to hide the evidence; Systematic torture is not a primary factor)

18 Torture-murderers with murder the primary motive

19 Psychopaths driven to terrorism, subjugation, intimidation and rape, (short of murder)

20 Torture murderers with torture as the primary motive but in psychotic personalities

21 Psychopaths preoccupied with torture in the extreme, but not known to have committed murder

22 Psychopathic torture-murderers, with torture their primary motive


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Evil

http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/36/12/9