2006-11-10 00:38:35 · 6 answers · asked by Sparkle 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
It means they can't help it, it is part of a disease, it is who they are, and they can't stop. Like a pathological lire can't stop lying.
2006-11-10 10:46:07 · answer #1 · answered by dakota29575 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A crime is pathological if the perp is suffering from a mental disease or the crimeis so extreme that it would be considered VERY abnormal. Not to say that crime is normal...it just means that there was something so out of place that one might tend to think the perp had a mental illness.
2006-11-10 10:11:37 · answer #2 · answered by Loli M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pathology (from Greek pathos, feeling, pain, suffering; and logos, study of; see also -ology) is the study of the processes underlying disease and other forms of illness, harmful abnormality, or dysfunction. Within biology but also a branch of medicine, it means specifically the study and diagnosis of the structural and functional changes in cells, tissues and organs that underlie disease. Pathology as a field of knowledge hence forms the basis of the scientific reasoning behind the practice of medicine.
2006-11-10 18:33:07 · answer #3 · answered by Smurfetta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who commits a pathological murder is mentally ill.
2006-11-10 22:23:26 · answer #4 · answered by glasgow girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pathology or altered or caused by disease
2006-11-10 18:41:15 · answer #5 · answered by Larry-Oklahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
patho logical killer: someone who kills from there mind, mentally screwed up. simply gone crazy.
2006-11-10 09:51:21 · answer #6 · answered by bb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋