Word: psychopathics
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...Louis Smith, 37, once attacked a girl with a croquet post and later murdered and raped a student nurse. For the past 18 years he has been confined in Michigan's Ionia State Hospital as a "criminal sexual psychopath." Last year he was told that brain surgeons at the highly respected Lafayette Clinic in Detroit might be able to heal his apparently incurable condition by psychosurgery, a controversial technique in which portions of the brain are destroyed (TIME, April 3, 1972). Smith agreed, but just before the planned operation, an activist attorney heard about it and filed a class...
...himself committed to Ionia under Michigan's criminal psychopath statute, which prevented the state from prosecuting him as a criminal. The Michigan state legislature repealed...
FIVE MONTHS AFTER entering the hospital, Mr. L. killed a nurse and attacked an attendant, and since then he has remained in the mental institution as a criminally sexual psychopath...
...Michigan, 18 persons institutionalized under the criminal psychopath statue still await release. Since 1968, when the law was repealed, 258 patients have been released. The state authorities considered the freed "criminals" cured to the extent that they could cope with society. Psychosurgery had not been employed, only traditional therapy methods...
...Morley, a consultant to the McAuley mission, "the mission's love goes to a segment of humanity that we like to ignore." Founder McAuley would have been one of the ignored ones, says Morley. "In the medical understanding of today, he would have been written off as an incurable psychopath. This kind of person is 'impossible' to reach...