CRMJ 415 Week 7 Assignment Critical Thinking-Mental
Disorder and Social Control
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Week 7 Critical Thinking Assignment (50 points)
Mental Disorder and Social Control
TCOs:
1
Defining deviance, types of deviance
4 Criminal behavior
7 Physical Characteristics (extends to mental disorders)
Case: Obsessed with Trains
Note: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are the most common neurological disorders affecting
children and one of the most common developmental disabilities in our society. ASDs change
the way the brain processes information and can affect all aspects of a person’s development.
Asperger’s Syndrome, often described as high functioning autism, is characterized by social
awkwardness and behaviors perceived as eccentric by normal standards, including obsessive
interests that make them stick out in society.
November 2006. The New York Times reported a story with this headline: “Man obsessed with
trains again runs afoul of the law”. Daniel McCollum, age 41, who suffers from Asperger’s
Syndrome, had already been arrested many times over the last 25 years for train-related
offences including impersonating transit workers, taking busses and subway trains for joy rides,
tripping emergency brakes, entering subway control towers and trying to steal a Long Island
Railway locomotive.