In today's episode without Josh, we discuss an episode about someone becoming a pedophile from a brain tumor and then an episode where Kyle MacLachlan shoots a psychopathic kid. They explore the strange, biologically essentialist notion of crime in both episodes and interrogate the category of "psychopath." Also there's a guy who really likes pee.
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References
- Law & Order: SVU, S5E25, "Head," written by Dawn DeNoon and Lisa Marie Petersen, directed by Juan J Campanella. Aired May 18, 2004, NBC.
- Law & Order: SVU, S6E6, "Conscience," written by Robert Nathan and Roger Wolfson, directed by David Platt. Aired November 9, 2004, NBC.
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), directed by Elio Petri
- "Cops Turn to NASA In Search For Florida Girl," NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4160462.
- Carlie's Law, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlie%27s_Law.
- "Brain tumor 'caused paedophilia,'" BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2345971.stm.
- Dorothy Otnow Lewis quote is on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Criticism_of_current_conceptions.
- "Mediated Psychopathy—A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Representations of Aggression," Roland Paulsen, Kritike, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_8/paulsen_december2010.pdf.
- "Science of conscience: Metaphysics, morality, and rhetoric in psychopathy research," Jarkko Ville Jalava, Simon Frasier University, https://summit.sfu.ca/item/8120.
- Eric Smith, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Smith_(murderer).
Audio
- Private Eye - Kevin Macleod
