Just so you know what I'm finding out about Barbara Haskins, the PhD quote they got on the issue...
She ran for city council back in like 2007, and I don't know if she won but it didn't look like it.
Back in 2004, she testified in a rape case for the defense.
http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2005 ... JuryS.html
Quote:
In the months that followed, Wayland argued, Hylton transformed from an outgoing young woman into someone who suffered from panic attacks, feared leaving her room, and slept with the lights on. Several times, he said, she considered suicide. And more recently, Hylton testified, she has struggled with flashbacks during intimate moments with her husband, Mark McLaughlin, a Navy pilot whom she married last month.
But Hamilton's expert witness, psychiatrist Barbara Haskins, testified that post traumatic stress syndrome can be brought on by a "perceived" trauma.
Further, she testified, Hylton's claim of drugging is unlikely.
While date rape drugs can cause amnesia and vomiting, Haskins testified, nausea usually occurs as the drug is wearing off, and not while the drug is exerting its mental effects. Statistics also suggest an alcohol blackout is a more likely explanation for Hylton's condition, Haskins said.
"One in four college students has an alcohol blackout," she testified. And of that number, she said, one in four has sexual activity during the blackout. "You definitely can engage in complex actions" while in a blackout, she said.
The jurors say Haskins' testimony was compelling-- and helped them form an opinion about what really happened to Hylton.
"We believe she believes she was raped," says Miller. The jury, Miller explains, decided Hylton "drank more alcohol than she meant to."
This is her case study linking Aspergers and Violence
http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/content/full/34/3/374And on arson, the article says...
Quote:
Arguably, fire-related crimes are among the most frequently associated with hfASD. In a previously discussed study, Siponmaa et al.29 reported that 10 (63%) of 16 crimes of arson were perpetrated by subjects with hfASD diagnoses. This was the only crime category in which these diagnoses were over-represented. The case of Mr. A. dramatically highlights a fixation with themes involving fire that led to a serious crime.
Several case reports associated with arson and hfASD have also appeared in the psychiatric literature, and the contributory factors appear to vary in each case.10,51,56 Everall and Lecouteur56 described a 17-year-old, diagnosed with AD at age 10, who recurrently set fires to watch the flames, demonstrating a repetitive narrow interest leading to antisocial behavior. Barry-Walsh and Mullen51 reported three cases of arson in hfASDs. Two cases involved an absorbing interest in fire. In a third case, the perpetrator burned down a radio station whose signal prevented him from listening to his preferred channel. Murrie and colleagues10 also described a subject who committed arson after brooding for approximately a year about injustices he had suffered. He had been bullied as a child. His arson victims had no connection to his youthful tormentors. He felt that small details of the target homes reminded him of the homes of the children who had bullied him years before. He decided on arson for revenge after seeing a news report about an arson case. He had had no psychiatric diagnosis prior to his forensic evaluation. The perpetrator could not appreciate that his actions had no impact on those whom he wished to punish. He had focused on the parts rather than the whole: the home details rather than the lack of any relationship of the targeted homes to his tormentors.
The abstract for the study she bases the info on the overrepresentation…
http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/content/abstra ... f_ipsecshaQuote:
Juvenile and young adult mentally disordered offenders: the role of child neuropsychiatric disorders
L Siponmaa, M Kristiansson, C Jonson, A Nyden, and C Gillberg
A retrospective study of the prevalence of child neuropsychiatric disorders was done involving pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Tourette syndrome in young offenders (15-22 years, n = 126) consecutively referred for presentencing forensic psychiatric investigation (FPI) in Stockholm, Sweden. Most offenders were referred for FPI because of serious offenses. Case report sheets were prepared, and retrospective neuropsychiatric DSM IV diagnoses were made by the first two authors. For best-estimated diagnoses, the case report sheets were then submitted to the fifth author, a child neuropsychiatrist with expertise in this area. Fifteen percent of the subjects had a definite diagnosis of ADHD, and another 15 percent had PDD, including 12 percent PDD not otherwise specified (NOS) and 3 percent Asperger syndrome. Autistic disorder was not found in any case. Tourette syndrome occurred in two percent of the cases. The rate of PDD is particularly striking. Neuropsychiatric diagnoses had been determined in the FPI in only a few cases. The contribution of constitutional problems to later criminal development may have been underestimated.
Arguments against this concept
http://www.iafmhs.org/files/Murrie.pdfAsperger’s Syndrome in Forensic Settings
Daniel C. Murrie, Janet I. Warren, Marianne Kristiansson, and Park E. Dietz
International Journal of Forensic Mental Health
2002, Vol. 1, No. 1, pages 59-70
Quote:
Frith (1991) also suggested that a lack of empathy underlies the aggressive behaviors that some Asperger’s patients may commit. However, she believed that those with Asperger’s syndrome are not motivated to hurt others, since doing so requires an “active theory of mind” which they “conspicuously lack.”
Quote:
More recently, in a review of 126 consecutive
referrals for forensic psychiatric assessment in
Stockholm, researchers found 3% of the young (age
15-22) sample met criteria for Asperger’s syndrome
(Siponmaa, Kristiansson, Jonsson, Nydén, &
Gillberg, 2001). However, it is unclear whether these
studies necessarily demonstrate a true association
between Asperger’s syndrome and violence (see Hall
& Bernal, 1995 for a critique). Given recent research
demonstrating a relationship between significant
mental illness and violence (Monahan et al., 2001),
such an association would not be surprising. Of
course, the vast majority of individuals with
Asperger’s syndrome (or any other mental disorder)
do not commit violent crimes.
http://aut.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/4/1/ ... fb5fd1e561Autism 2000; 4; 63
Patricia Howlin
Syndrome
Outcome in Adult Life for more Able Individuals with Autism or Asperger
Quote:
1 Individuals currently being studied as adults will usually have been diagnosed
as autistic when children. Prior to 1980 (when Wing, 1981 and
subsequently Frith, 1991 revived interest in Asperger’s writings) few
clinicians were aware of Asperger syndrome.
2 The hierarchical system employed by DSM-IV (American Psychiatric
Association, 1994) (so that a diagnosis of autism rules out a diagnosis
of Asperger syndrome and vice versa) gives rise to particular problems
for clinicians. Thus, diagnostic criteria for Asperger syndrome are frequently
used inconsistently (see Ghaziuddin et al., 1992; Klin et al.,
1995; Schopler and Mesibov, 1992; Szatmari, 1998). The label of
Asperger syndrome may be used for all cases who are of high IQ and
have good communication skills (regardless of early language development)
or the more general label of ‘high-functioning autism’ may be
used instead.
3 Research studies frequently fail to distinguish between autism and
Asperger syndrome in a consistent way. Some make the distinction on
the basis of current linguistic functioning (Ozonoff et al., 1991). Others
differentiate between subgroups on the basis of IQ (e.g. Rumsey et al.,
1985).
Quote:
There are no epidemiological studies of psychiatric morbidity in individuals
with autism or Asperger syndrome and any estimates must be treated
with caution because of problems of sampling and referral bias.
Quote:
There is little evidence of any excess of crimes amongst more able people
with autism, despite occasional and sometimes lurid media publicity suggesting
otherwise.
http://www.aspennj.org/pdf/information/ ... logist.pdfAsperger's Disorder: What It Is and What It Isn't
Beth A. Glasberg, PhD
The Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center and the Rutgers Autism Program
Rutgers University
Quote:
Despite the violent speech that may be present among individuals with Asperger's Disorder, violent acts have rarely
been documented. Although Scragg and Shah's (1994) examination of the prevalence of Asperger's Disorder in a
secure hospital led them to surmise that individuals with Asperger's Disorder were over-represented in that setting,
later researchers have questioned this conclusion and instead attributed the identified prevalence rate to chance (Hall
& Bernal, 1995). The few case studies that describe a violent act committed by an individual with Asperger's Disorder
acknowledge that such behavior is not common among individuals with Asperger's Disorder (e.g., Kohn, Fahum,
Ratzoni, & Apter, 1998).
04 May 2009, 3:15 pm
Just being a little silly. Moved back east recently from Wyoming. Glad to be home. Miss the sunsets though.
