Ivey Marie Weiss, 49, of Ocala, was arrested yesterday and charged with shoplifting and engaging in a scheme to defraud after allegedly stealing over $160 in items from the Target store in Gainesville.
It can. We has a local here who had some kind of compulsion to throw rocks (big ones) off of overpasses at cars.
He knew it was wrong, and the guilt evidently fucked with him a lot, but he also couldn’t stop himself. Eventually he had to turn himself in and hope the state didn’t execute him or something.
Isn’t kleptomania a real disorder?
Does it matter? I thought the standard is “knowing right from wrong” in terms of mental illness defense.
It can. We has a local here who had some kind of compulsion to throw rocks (big ones) off of overpasses at cars.
He knew it was wrong, and the guilt evidently fucked with him a lot, but he also couldn’t stop himself. Eventually he had to turn himself in and hope the state didn’t execute him or something.
it definitely still matters…
I think?
But I was simply providing one possible answer for the person above wondering, “what makes people do this?”
Of course it does.
I suppose it could be some compulsive thing, but I doubt that everyone stealing like that has a bonafide mental disorder.