Well, I understand what everyone is saying and I agree in principle, but in this case I'd like to point out that writing about his crimes was part of his method. The dozens of letters he sent, giving clues, taunting the police...he made detailed to-do lists for each "project," as he called his victims. He has publicly stated that someone else should have noticed there was something wrong, and done something about him.
Introspection isn't this guy's strong point.
Nothing is preventing him from giving interviews to psychiatrists seeking to study him. A full record will be available. Anything they need they will have ample opportunity to get.
Part of the punishment/rehab/prevention concept in the prisons is to prevent the criminal from contact with anything that served him in his crimes. Child sex killers, for example, aren't allowed pictures of children, even family pictures of their own children or nieces and nephews. They attempt to remove all stimuli related to that particular criminal. In this case, writing his taunting letters and fantasies and little notebooks of plans was integral to his persona. So they're taking that away.
As important as writing is to all of us, I think we need to remember that it can be abused like any tool. If he seeks to go within himself and work out his issues, there's nothing wrong with spending a whole lot of time on his knees communing with himself and with his God (and remember he still claims to be a devout Christian, he says this is all because of a demon that got inside him). I'm sure that many thousands of illiterate people throughout the centuries have managed to do introspective work with thought and prayer, minus the ability to write those thoughts down. I think in his case that's a proper method.
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Date: 2005-08-19 03:57 pm (UTC)Introspection isn't this guy's strong point.
Nothing is preventing him from giving interviews to psychiatrists seeking to study him. A full record will be available. Anything they need they will have ample opportunity to get.
Part of the punishment/rehab/prevention concept in the prisons is to prevent the criminal from contact with anything that served him in his crimes. Child sex killers, for example, aren't allowed pictures of children, even family pictures of their own children or nieces and nephews. They attempt to remove all stimuli related to that particular criminal. In this case, writing his taunting letters and fantasies and little notebooks of plans was integral to his persona. So they're taking that away.
As important as writing is to all of us, I think we need to remember that it can be abused like any tool. If he seeks to go within himself and work out his issues, there's nothing wrong with spending a whole lot of time on his knees communing with himself and with his God (and remember he still claims to be a devout Christian, he says this is all because of a demon that got inside him). I'm sure that many thousands of illiterate people throughout the centuries have managed to do introspective work with thought and prayer, minus the ability to write those thoughts down. I think in his case that's a proper method.