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Young, violent, and dangerous to know

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M. Fitzgerald
M. Fitzgerald*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Abstract

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Objectives / aims

This presentation examines the neuroscience of criminal autistic psychopathy.

Methods

It will examine persons described by Hans Asperger who enjoy “sadistic” acts. It is only a very small number of persons with autism who show criminal autistic psychopathy.

This can have fatal consequences for the victims. Some of the acts are of the nature of “experiments” by the persons with autism. This presentation will examine ways of identifying persons with this condition. The vast majority of persons with autism are highly moral.

Conclusion

There is evidence for a new diagnostic category “criminal autistic psychopathy”.

Type
P01-283
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 284
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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