Implication of criminal versatility

ajr8 wrote:When you're on trial for murder, it's easy to get your lesser crimes dropped from the record. It would be redundant to sentence him to life in prison for murder, plus two years for pimping, plus nine months for ATM fraud or something, his murder charge is enough for the jury.

In that case, it was more of a character issue. Since he was on trial for rape, how he treated women was deemed to be too damning and might affect the jury negatively. It was a controversial decision by the judge. I thought it should have been allowed.

There seemed no real reason for his act, aside that he thought about it, and was with a woman at the time that also had the urge to destroy an innocent. It seemed like some sort of proving themselves to each others, that would be my best guess. I think it was just a one off act.

DayWreck wrote:

ajr8 wrote:I'm always fascinated when criminals graduate from petty or just non violent crime into violent crime like rape and murder. I don't quite understand it, I would think violence starts young and continues until a burn out stage or you get stopped by the law.

Power over others is a highly addictive thing and people act differently, addictions or not. You seem to be looking for a linear path to understand human characteristics whether disordered or not.

I agree it's addictive, and I probably would have continued since I got away with so much in the past from a combination of luck and the fact that my victims were decent enough not to report me in most cases. It made me feel practically indestructible that I was getting away with it, but along the way I decided it was senseless and unsatisfying to any psychological motivation I had other than excitement but it actually never led to excitement for me. All I felt was curiosity about how far I could go with each victim but otherwise I felt no emotional reaction or elevation of mind at all, so it basically became boring to me and it was leading to serious trouble anyway so I thought well if I can rationally decide to commit violent crimes I can just rationally decide to quit and find other ways to do my thing, and I did.

DayWreck wrote:I don't think you're going to find it. You have found yours though and that's really quite good considering how few people are truly self aware.

When I got profiled by the psychopath specialist, he commented to me that I was more self aware than most violent offenders he'd seen, and I remember saying something along the lines of, "Well, I'm a lot smarter than them" or something, which was stupid of me, it probably just made me sound grandiose, which I bet he noticed. But it's true, I am self aware and I even knew I was a sexual sadist so when he gave me the sexual deviance test I lied on every question that would have made me come across as sexually sadistic, I didn't want him getting an accurate picture of me and possibly putting it into some kind of database. And it was this extensive evaluation period for me that made me choose to be non violent, the attention you get is far too damaging to be worth it.