The rise of “0 to 100” killers who go from watching torture, mutilation and beheading videos in their bedrooms to committing murder suggests there could be a link between extreme violence online and in real life, experts have said.
Criminal justice experts advocated a new approach, inspired by counter-terrorism, to identify an emerging type of murderer with no prior convictions, after cases such as Nicholas Prosper, who killed his mother and siblings and planned a primary school massacre.
Jonathan Hall, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said there was a “new threat cohort” combining terrorists who were radicalised online and those who had “gone down a rabbit hole and into a dark world”.
He said: “There are quite a lot of similarities: they are isolated loners, boys rather than girls; the internet is obviously central; quite a high proportion have neurodivergence.
I guess you missed this part … “quite a high proportion have neurodivergence”
It’s simply pointing to the fact that many of the predominately male mass murderers are neurodivergent.
Stop comparing those on the outer edges of the bell curve with those who make up the body of the bell.
What does neurodivergent mean to you because there is range of divergent behaviors.
Exactly. The range goes from ADHD or autism to FAS or epilepsy.
Ok, I took you as saying that neurodivergent was a good signal but yeah it’s 15-20% of the population.
It’s less specific than other factors such as being an adolescent male which is a stronger signal but also not a requirement.
It actually looks like lonliness with some disconnect from society is the strongest signal. And that’s why actual research should been done rather than some random speculative report full of personal biases.