RSBM
I personally hope that this isn't true, because if anyone can be judged as a psychopath just for taking nude photos or stealing a shopping cart, then most of the population would need protection from each other. What about the people who think smuggling a little booze or smokes into the country isn't a crime, what would they be judged as by a psychiatrist, I wonder?
In my opinion, nude photos are so much a part of the societal norm now, people start doing it far younger than DM was then, and they do it well into ages you don't want to see photos of (look at Geraldo). Also, taking shopping carts from stores is so commonplace that many stores install locking wheels to make them harder to take. Both are part of the normal fabric of North American life right now, it's hard for me to judge anyone for doing either thing, personally.
BBM
To me this sounds like a George Orwell novel, living a life where every little variance from the norm is documented and used against you later if you ever step out of line.
All my opinion only.
Well medicine has been changing in the last 10 years or so as the field moves to electronic record keeping. You've probably been to your doctor and seen them interact with a system called Nightingale
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/169...al-management-system-agreement-with-ontariomd which is the clinical management system used in Ontario. Now, with electronic records, despite a patient moving, using multiple providers, and so forth, the system is able to keep a life-long record of someone's interactions with the system. (Well, ideally...my doctor calls it Nightinmare.)
People with mental health and addiction issues are tracked with a system called OCAN
http://ontario.cmha.ca/news/recommended-uses-for-ocan/#.VZ7i9vlVhBc
Within psychiatry, technology allows providers to track a full and complete personal and medical history. Unfortunately, this means personal info is compiled within the medical system as somehow meaningful.
The Ontario Ministry of Health buys people's data for Air Miles (I know because I've sold mine)....they have a longitudinal study of the health of Ontarians going on and they have paid for access to Ontarians medical records and blood samples drawn specifically for the program. They also buy people's purchase history via the LCBO for alcohol use studies (again, I've sold mine.)
All of these digital records are creating a heydey for research, including within psychiatry.
DM will no doubt be studied for decades in search of his shrunken forebrain that destined him to be a criminal
and all the telling signs (shopping cart theft
) that he was going to turn out to be a psychopath.
Psychopathy is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy because in order to be considered destined to do things in your future, you only have to have done things in your past.
