Outline of Models of Psychosis

You asked very good questions about whether the same model applies to Harteveld and Bliss, whether the model applies to spree and serial killers alike, whether individuals still have control over how they react to sociocultural messages (barbershop baiting and road rage came up), whether this gender binary is ok (it overstates the binary and ignores gender mobility), among other good questions.  We also discussed our ongoing effort to link sociocultural forces to individual cases while doing justice to both.  Cultural analysis is hard!  Your questions suggest that you are doing well.

PS Scholars have been arguing that gender is a racialized category-- e.g. this research (the title is clickbait--scroll down).

Your Questions about the Frame

Midterm Topics to Keep in Mind

5 Facts about Crime

On our theme of using actual data to make arguments, here's a Pew Research Center study about crime rates in the US, in contrast to political discourse about them.

Another Week Like That

Woodard's 11-Nations map held up pretty well during the mid-terms.  Leaving aside the important effects of gerrymandering and voter suppression ("Why Wasn't the Blue Wave Bigger?"), the map predicts that Democrats, standing for social improvement through collective action and regulation, would have a harder time advancing in the Old South and Greater Applachia than in midwestern Yankeedom.  And that's what happened.  Wisconsin and Michigan reverted to their historic baselines, and Georgia and Florida didn't quite depart from theirs. One change to watch is that Far West, which has been solidly Republican for a few decades, is increasingly in play.

We also have had another mass killing, this one in a country-western bar in Ventura County halfway between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. The shooter has now been identified, and fits a pattern we'll discuss next week.  If you're interested in this issue, consider this piece, What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer.