Is genocide justified when it comes to psychopaths?

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You should've said that from the very beginning.

Where are your statistic? Why don't you post it here so I can have a look.

he estimated coefficient of poverty now yields crime-poverty elasticity. The ln(Total Crime) model shows that holding the other variables constant, a 1% increase in poverty leads to a 2.16% increase in total crime. This coefficient is significant at the 0.6% level. The ln(Violent Crime) model shows that a 1% increase in poverty leads to a 2.57% increase in violent crime and is significant only at the 5.1% level.

The results of this analysis are consistent with other studies that have been conducted by economists, for example:

[Studies] found that homicides were disproportionately concentrated in areas of poverty. Three of these (by Bullock [1955], Beasley and Antunes [1974], and Mladenka and Hill [1976]) studied violent crime in Houston. Like Shaw and McKay [1969], each reported high correlations between violent crime rates and measures of poverty. Areas in Houston with high rates of violent crime were also characterized by high population density and a high proportion of black residents. (Short 51)

These studies as well as the above analysis show that poverty is correlated with violent crimes - increased poverty leads to increased violent crime.

Another study by Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan, and Paul Hirschfield also that teens committed more violent crimes when they lived in high poverty areas than when they were relocated to low poverty areas. “The offer to relocate families from high- to very low-poverty neighborhoods (census tracts with poverty rates below 10 percent) reduces juvenile arrests for violent offenses on the order of 30 to 50 percent of the arrest rate for controls” (Ludwig 13).

Hooray! For whatever reasons, you've managed to rise above the neglect and/or brutality of your upbringing. Awesome. Guess what? That doesn't happen for everyone, and pitilessly writing them off just because you happen to be a success story is both heartless and willfully cruel.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Really? Please, do elaborate. From where I'm sitting, one side of the debate (the 'nurture' side) has evidence backing it, whereas your side only has insulting statements (see above) and pitiless dismissals. By all means, please rationalize your viewpoint that society is perfect and everyone who doesn't fit in is born broken and should be excised.

Psychological findings and studies are proven inaccurate all the time and they get more funds in order to make new findings, etc. Clinicians get it wrong often and a finding doesn't necessarily prove something. It's just a study and a finding.

Psychological findings and studies are proven inaccurate all the time and they get more funds in order to make new findings, etc. Clinicians get it wrong often and a finding doesn't necessarily prove something. It's just a study and a finding.

That doesn't absolve criminals from their actions, but it means that we can prevent crime by altering social conditions such as poverty, inequality, and dysfunctional family environments.

Like I said above, get a life elsewhere.

This. A criminal's debt to society is between them, the government and their victims, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve the system in order to make this kind of crime obsolete. Y'know, so we can upgrade to purely white-collar crime and no one has to feel bad about locking them up.

Biologists, geneticists and ethologists have found the same though. The environment literally turns genes on or off. Our brains interact with the environment as well. What we commonly call instinct is in fact so-called prepared learning, i.e. readily available neurological pathways that are potentiated (activated) by environmental factors.

That doesn't absolve criminals from their actions, but it means that we can prevent crime by altering social conditions such as poverty, inequality, and dysfunctional family environments.

Speaking of picking up the tab: What about corporate entities that harm society and meet the criteria of psychopathy? Since corporations are legal persons, shouldn't the psychopaths among them be put out of their misery?

If you read this thread you would know that I don't agree with killing criminals, so why put me under attack?