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that the best decision was to put her in jail because she needed to be more responsible of her mental problem and not to stay quiet. I still cannot find a reason on how can you kill your five children. It is still sad because I consider that Andrea Yates had the perfect life that anybody wishes to have. She had a united family when she was younger, graduated with honors from high school, went to college and got her nursing degree, married her boyfriend, and had an awesome family with kids, what else

Seek Justice, Plead Guilty Andrea Yates was a wife and a mother of five children. Today, Andrea Yates is admitted into a psychiatric ward for murdering her own. She had drowned her children, in the bathtub, in 2001. In 2002, she was put on trial, after calling the police on herself, for the death of her children. She was defended by reasons of postpartum depression and insanity. Andrea Yates was supposed to face a lifetime in prison, the jury showing no mercy towards her. She was pleaded innocent

Frank Yates was born May 12, 1902 in Manchester, England into the family of Edith and Percy Yates. He was the oldest of five with the other four his sisters. He died 92 years later in June 17, 1994 in the town of Harpenden, England. He grew up in a well off family, going to school at a private high school named Wadham House. Before Yates entered high school, his uncle gave him a five figure logarithm which led to his interest in math. his time in This is where Yates was pushed and encouraged in the

What and why is Forensic Psychology Important in Legal Proceedings? Beth Velez Southern New Hampshire University Justice 101-Introduction to Criminal Justice Forensic psychology is an important part of the legal system, dating back to 1921. I plan to show in my paper just how forensic psychologists conduct their assessments, the implications on what the assessment and testing shows, and how it can benefit not only the defendant, but society as well. Forensic psychologist can show if a person is

mothers and is entirely a beast of a different nature, one that must be reckoned with. The most recent Post Partum case that has rightfully caused a media frenzy is the Andrea Yates case. Yates was the mother of five young children. This past summer Yates held each of her children in a bath tub full of water until their death. Yates had PPD. Post Partum depression causes a new mother to become depressed to a severe extent. PPD causes its patients to fall to an uncomfortable mental state. PPD patients

children (2008). The Andrea Yates case was chosen as the focus of this paper because it perfectly illustrates the impact of external and internal forces, which can drive a woman to commit a violent crime and societies reaction to those crimes. Andrea Yates A brief synopsis of the Yates case is required for better understanding of the theories this document attributes to her crime. On June 20, 2001, in Clear Lake, Texas a small bedroom community located in Harris County, Andrea Yates drowned her five young

On June 20, 2001 by far one of the most horrific things happened. Five children was drowned in the tub and killed by their mother Andrea Yates (Noah, aged 7; John, aged 5; Paul, aged 3; Luke, aged 2; and Mary, 6 months). Andrea Yates said the reason for the murders was because she heard voices that told her that she was a bad mother and her children would go to hell. In her state of psychosis, she thought that the only way to save the children was to kill them and send the m to heaven (DeadlyWomenWiki)

Yates psychiatric history falls in line with her not guilty by reason of insanity plea. Her stress alone from being a “supermom” holds reason behind “people under stress...do not think through the consequences of their actions and thus do not appreciate the wrongfulness of what they are doing” (Slobogin 2003). Yates was documented as experiencing psychosis because she heard voices and saw things that did not actually exist. She believed that a television commercial was calling her a fat pig, a delusional

Biological Criminal Behavior Jordan Miller, Amy Showers, Sarah Wilson, Myron Reynolds, Cristine Saldate, Aisha Peeples CJA 314 May 14, 2012 Alonzo Medina Biological Criminal Behavior People perceive that crime, primarily violent crimes, such as murder, is the most serious crime society faces in modern times. This has led to efforts by many research groups to attempt to find the cause of such criminal behavior. The focus of such research is biological issues with the belief that a biological

The human mind is already a curious place, but if we go to the deepest corners of it, even the most experienced forensic will be surprised. Andrea Yates was a devoted mother of five children. She had a strict religious ethic and was loved by her husband and many others. Everything seemed fine with Andrea’s mind until one day; she decided to drown each of her five children. This caused a huge controversy among professionals because they had trouble putting a label on her dementia. The