Johnny Torres Case Study Jhony

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Johnny's Background Dr. Torres diagnosed Johnny with posttraumatic stress disorder during his most recent incarceration due to a difficult childhood. This childhood was riddled with abuse both physically, mentally, and emotionally which in itself is difficult to handle for any 5 year old. However having to endure the fear of watching your mother being abused and then having your father go to prison for shooting two neighbors really took a toll on Johnny.
Theory of Criminal Behavior The theory of criminal behavior that I would classify Johnny would be the behavioral and social learning theories due to his childhood. According to Kitaeff (2011), this theory understands that the behaviors that Johnny witnessed as a child would have a strong impact on him as he matured and especially as he became an adult. This would include the mental and physical abuse as well as the gun intimidation he endured at the hands of his father. Second, his father getting into a dispute with a neighbor and then shooting them as a means to fix the argument would have left quite the impression on a 5 year old. This type of behavior would feel like normal behavior for Johnny and even with therapy might be his go to attitude when overly frustrated. Johnny's parents divorcing when he was a child would also give him feelings of …show more content…

Johnny would be defined as a mass murderer as it was "a single episodic act of violence, occurring at one time and in one place. Most authorities have stipulated three as the minimum number of victims necessary for an event to be classified as a mass murder" (Kitaeff, 2011, p. 81-82). Johnny did not leave and go to several locations with varying agendas for each as a spree killer might rather he concentrated in one area. In addition, Johnny did not have time in between killings as a serial killer would and seemed to have little to no significance behind the murders other than anger and violence.
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