is whether such people are inherently evil or whether they are sick. my guest today has spent more than three decades trying to treat some of the most violent offenders here in the uk. dr gwen adshead is a forensic psychiatrist as well as a psychotherapist, and has worked across a range of secure hospitals, prisons and in the community. why does she urge compassion and understanding for those who many brand as being simply evil? dr gwen adshead, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zeinab. why did you decide to choose a career where you provide counselling and therapy to people who ve committed acts which many brand as simply being pure evil? well, i first got interested in this career because i was interested in law and ethics. that very interesting question of how should we treat people who ve done terrible things? so i started by assessing those people and giving evidence in court and really beginning to try and understand how people came to commit acts of violence. a
it s the first time in her career the 19 year old has lost the opening match of a grand slam event. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. how should society deal with the perpetrators of horrific crimes the child killers, the serial murderers, sadists and those who commit acts of extreme sexual violence? well, a starting point is whether such people are inherently evil or whether they are sick. my guest today has spent more than three decades trying to treat some of the most violent offenders here in the uk. dr gwen adshead is a forensic psychiatrist as well as a psychotherapist, and has worked across a range of secure hospitals, prisons and in the community. why does she urge compassion and understanding for those who many brand as being simply evil? dr gwen adshead, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zeinab. why did you decide to choose a career where you provide counselling and therapy to people who ve committed acts which many bra
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if we think about the homicide numbers in england and wales, they haven t changed in a0 years. and they re about between 600 and 700 each year. that s far too many people, numerically, of course, that s 700, 600 lives lost every year, and that s terrible, but in a population of 60 million people, actually, homicide is a very rare and unusual event. and it is unusual, very unusual, for well off people to do that. so, being brought up in adverse circumstances, be it abuse or be it poverty, whatever, you re saying, is a necessary condition, on the whole. it seems to be. but, i mean, there are lots of people who have had really difficult upbringings and, as you say, they don t go on to do this. and in your book, the devil you know, which hasjust come out in paperback, you talk about cases you don t give them their real names but you read them and these people just strike you as simply being evil, regardless of what their background has done to them.