IRJE #3

The book I am currently reading is “The Psychology of Criminal behaviour and Violence” The chapter I am currently on is about Mental Disorders. It explains about the main disorders someone can have. The case I am on currently is about a woman, Rene Poole from Richmond, BC. She had bipolar disorder.

She asked bystanders repeatedly if they had seen her ex-husband, removed her clothes, and defecated at the side of the road. She then lay down at the edge of the highway and began to laugh. Witnesses sensed that she did not grasp that she was responsible for causing a very serious accident.

She had done that after she caused a car accident involving two other cars. She was acting this way because of her Disorder but also because she had not been taking her medication leading up to this event.

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