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On 24 May 2014, Elliot Rodger repeatedly stabbed three men to death in his apartment, before killing two women and another man, and wounding several others, before committing suicide, during a shooting spree across ten locations in Isla Vista, close to the University of California, Santa Barbara. Rodger, it seems, had been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. He had certainly been receiving psychiatric care from multiple therapists. He had published a 141-page manifesto entitled My Twisted World on the Internet, and posted a number of videos on YouTube, in which his hatred of others, particularly in the form of misogyny, was explicit.
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Tyson, J., Hall, N. (2016). Medicalising ‘Hatred’: Exploring the Sense and Sensitivities of Classifying the Motivations for Hate Crime as Mental Disorder. In: Winstone, J. (eds) Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453884_6
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