Rehabilitation of Murderers Research Assignment Paper

Rehabilitation of Murderers
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Murders are categorized as homicide or mass killings depending on the number of people one has killed and the time span. Holmes &Holmes (2010) define a serial killer as one that has killed more than three people. There are reasons why people commit murder and clinical psychologists have come up with ways of rehabilitating murderers.Morgan Lane Arnold, a 14-year-old girl was charged with conspiracy to commit murder of her blogger and a commercial real estate agent father. After weeks of plotting the murder, she stabbed her father to death at their home on the 10th of May 2013. She was sent to a juvenile prison until her trial was heard and she pleaded guilty at 17. She was charged with first-degree murder and sentenced to life. Her sentence was reduced to 30 years after the judge William Tucker acknowledged that she suffered from a serious mental disorder.
In another incidence, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard carried out a mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando leaving 50 people dead and 53 injured. He had legally bought a long-range gun and pistols weeks before the shooting. Police had initially investigated him in connection to Islamic terrorists but they had found no evidence. Reports showed that he had called 911 before the attack and he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic state. It was also revealed that he had a dislike to the gays, blacks and the Jews.
Although both murders were planned weeks before they happened, Lane`s murder was most amendable to rehabilitation due to the mental illness she had. Mental disorder could make a person commit a crime since this person is not in their right mind. Treatments are given to mentally ill patients and when crimes are committed by them, they are amended due to their illnesses as compared to an offender without mental disorder. Juveniles are recommended for rehabilitation centers where they can learn and change their behaviors with good response to therapy and admitting to the crime...