"Speaking in Cork, the Garda Commissioner described the Kinahan organised crime gang as "a murderous gang of drug dealers" that has created misery throughout the world" and the garda and international partners are "resolute and relentless in pursuit of those individuals."
'Legal socialisation and development of legitimacy' is a huge business, particularly when it goes pear shaped, and at varying times, when the social contract tightens, multiple satellites of vested interests take their eye off the ball, sending curve balls that accelerate, rather than curb the rise of the anti-social, xenophobic and discriminatory attitudes, unleashing grotesque violence.
Irelands history manifests a very high tolerance for crimes and the state party ideological matrix have often veered toward fetishised ideas, that glide over and even romanticise hawkish and callous temperaments.
Like the Americans, the Irish have added its own share of selling bunk about malevolence&converting that streak into enchanting ideas for whom we think and imagine we are.
Furthermore, the tenacious romanticism of exalted virtue and positivity, smokescreen in ways that does not pick up on the dire implications of unsocial sociality for 'innocent' others.
"Psychiatry has wrestled with the problem of chronic antisocial behavior for more than 200 years. While the terms and definitions used have shifted over the years, they all describe recurrent, serial misbehavior. People with ASPD rebel against authority, resist all norms, and push the limits of acceptable behavior. Nineteenth century British physician William Pritchard used the term moral insanity to describe people who willfully engage in antisocial conduct. His use of the term moral was prescient considering that many people he described appeared to lack a moral compass, perhaps ASPD’s most disturbing aspect."
FULL ACCESS Clinical & Research Published Online: 23 November 2022
Special Report: Antisocial Personality Disorder—The Patient in Need Often Overlooked
Adorno, a psychologist, among many other things, is someone who knew violence, up close and personal, said 'all talk toward freedom is ludicrous- affirmative mentality or the jargon of authentic often 'mere assertion of a mind that is incapable of looking horror in the face, and thereby perpetuates it.'
We need more resources beyond Adorno for thinking about the development of legitimacy; how external institutions create scenes of understanding and practices. Given the vast scale of impoverished knowledge, some of it deliberate avoidance, institutional knowledge as a 'con trick' -a litany of harms that sunder people out of reason, going unnoticed, making larger engagement with society a far harder climb.
Curbing&silencing people in our history; the prequels of 19th Century; its well noted vectors of unevenness in the lie of the land.
&then into the 20/21st Century, 4a deeply flawed political/religious experiment that was obsessive on coercive control of peoples.
PSI member Dr Sharon Lambert speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on Justice yesterday evening, discussing drivers of violence and criminality.
"By implementing comprehensive prevention strategies, [...] with a focus on mental health, education, employment, social inclusion, and community development, policymakers can create conditions that reduce the likelihood of criminal behaviour and promote safer, more cohesive societies."
Read her opening statement in full here: bit.ly/3NiO8Y8
