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* Sexual abuse is one of the factors that can lead to men and women becoming pedophiles, though current evidence suggests that this is a very, very small minority.
* A recent book studying relationship abusers yielded interesting results (will add name of book when I can find it in this office). When asked why they abuse, they said it was because their mother/father/etc. abused them. When the interviewer called BS, telling them they would remember the abuse and not want to inflict it on others, nearly 60% of the abusers fessed up and said that wasn't why they abused.
* One theory of Anti-Social Personality Disorder is that usually those who have it did not merely have [[Abusive Parents]]; rather, they had [[Abusive Parents]] who periodically would make some half-assed and short-lived attempt at discipline or generosity, or pretend that everything was "normal", for example to fool outsiders. Its the chaotic and random hypocrisy of the situation that ''really'' set them off, teaching them that punishment is arbitrary, kindness is a mask, and other such [[Family
** Anti-Social Personality Disorder (colloquially known as "sociopathy" or "psychopathy", although they are technically subsets of ASPD) is a serious mental disorder for which the most prominent symptom is a complete inability to feel empathy. The DSM-IV-TR describes it as: "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood." ASPD is unique in that it is the only mental disorder for which psychiatric treatment offers NO benefit and, in fact, actually results in the person becoming a "better" sociopath. Talk therapy is ill-advised and people with the diagnosis (which is almost NEVER made until the person is above 18 years of age) tend to be manipulative, extremely prone to blaming others, and present themselves as having experienced severe victimization, but are also extremely superficially charming, appear more intelligent than average (although they tend to have an extremely average IQ; sociopathy and high-IQ scores are not correlated), and will do and/or say anything they must to convince a person that they are good. It has been theorized that people with ASPD do not have the kind of "inner monologue", that voice in your head, that most people do. They also, for whatever reason, have an extremely high pain tolerance (generally) and are completely and totally desensitized towards human violence (and gore).
*** There is no treatment, and while only a small percentage of people with ASPD become "criminals", most end up on either side of the social spectrum; many CEO's of Fortune500 companies meet all criteria for ASPD, for instance.
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