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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let s just look at what makes people commit. i mean, you said everybody has the capacity, but mercifully, most people don t actually realise that, you know, and kill people. but those who do, the serial killers, the child killers and the rest of it, what motivates them? do they always have a personality disorder of some kind? that s a really interesting question, and it s a complex one to answer simply. but i think one of the things that i ve tried to describe in my work is the idea of a number of risk factors lining up, like numbers in a bicycle lock. and if the risk factors all line up in the right way, then the possibility for violence can happen. and i think that you see it s important to distinguish different kinds of killing. there s killing in a political context, there s killing in the context of drug crime, for example, and then there s the killing of people that you re close to, people you ve been in a relationship with,
about the potential for risk. and it s my part of myjob to keep myself safe in order to get the work done. so, no, ithink, infact, the general community is a much, much more dangerous place to be. let s just look at what makes people commit. i mean, you said everybody has the capacity, but mercifully, most people don t actually realise that, you know, and kill people. but those who do, the serial killers, the child killers and the rest of it, what motivates them? do they always have a personality disorder of some kind? that s a really interesting question, and it s a complex one to answer simply. but i think one of the things that i ve tried to describe in my work is the idea of a number of risk factors lining up, like numbers in a bicycle lock.