The cult phenomenon is a typical case for criminology. It sits halfway between law and legal medicine, right at the heart of forensic psychiatry. CC’s commit criminal actions against people and property, and sometimes they foment grander schemes that threaten state security.
Here, then, is my proposition:
A coercive cult (CC) is a closed group, based on mental manipulation, organized around a master (guru) and an ideology.
It aims to establish a qualitative difference between the initiates of the structure and non-initiates, and its objective, overt or covert, is the enrichment of the group or of a part of the group.
It is established and developed by the exploitation of those who are manipulated, by those who do the manipulating.
Its effect on the individual is likely to entail physical and psychic disorders, which may or may not be reversible.
Criminal Case
Çifte ya da ikiz delilik popüler kültürün çok ilgi çeken bir konusudur. Örneğin ''The X Files'', ''CSI Miami'', ''Law and Order'' ve ''Criminal Minds'' adlı dizilerin her birinde bu konuyu işleyen bölümlere rastlanır.
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The Turks, worried about escalating problems with America, wanted a way out, or so we thought, trying to wrap an exchange for Brunson into the Halkbank criminal investigation. This was at best unseemly, but Trump wanted Brunson out, so Pompeo and Mnuchin negotiated with their counterparts (Mnuchin because Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control was also looking into Halkbank).5 In three-way conversations, Mnuchin, Pompeo, and I agreed nothing would be done without full agreement from the Justice Department prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, where the case, involving over $20 billion in Iran sanctions violations, was pending. (In my days at the Justice Department, we called the Southern District the “Sovereign District of New York,” because it so often resisted control by “Main Justice,” let alone by the White House.) Several times, Mnuchin was exuberant he had reached a deal with Turkey’s Finance Minister. This was typical: Whether Mnuchin was negotiating with Turkish fraudsters or Chinese trade mandarins, a deal was always in sight. In each case, the deal fell apart when Justice tanked it, which was why trying this route to get Brunson’s release was never going to work. Pompeo said, “The Turks just can’t get out of their own way,” but it was in fact Justice prosecutors who rightly rejected deals worth next to nothing from the US government’s perspective. In the meantime, Turkey’s currency continued to depreciate rapidly, and its stock market wasn’t doing much better.
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Nietzsche'nin Dostoyevski'yi övdüğü pasaj
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The Criminal and What is Related to Him.—The criminal type is the type of the strong person under unfavourable conditions, a strong person made sick. He lacks a wilderness, a certain freer and more dangerous nature and form of existence, where all that is weapon and defence in the instinct of the strong person exists aright. His virtues are
People who are uncomfortable while being interviewed (e.g., suspects in criminal investigations, children in trouble with their parents, or an employee being questioned for improper conduct) often complain of feeling cold during the interview. Regardless of the reason, when we are distressed the limbic brain engages various systems of the body in preparation for the freeze/flight-or-fight survival response. One of the effects is that blood is channeled toward the large muscles of the limbs and away from the skin, in case those muscles will need to be used to escape or combat the threat. As blood is diverted to these vital areas, some people lose their normal skin tone and will actually look pale or as if they are in shock. Since blood is the main source of our body warmth, diverting blood away from the skin and into deeper muscles makes the body’s surface feel cooler (…) (LeDoux, 1996, 131–133).
Aum embarked on an extraordinary, six-year crime spree. The cult's law breaking knew no bounds: massive consumer fraud, land fraud, medical malpractice, extortion, drug dealing, firearms and explosives violations, manufacture of biological and chemical weapons, kidnapping, murder, and mass murder. Year after year this went on, nearly all of it within seventy miles of Tokyo. The response of Japanese law enforcement is a virtual case study on what not to do in fighting terrorism and organized crime. Leads were missed or
never followed up, witnesses and evidence ignored, and agencies refused to cooperate with each other. No action was taken, until one day Tokyo cops awoke
to find the world's busiest subway attacked with nerve gas at the height of
rush hour.
