Birth Place:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Fast Facts
Graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor's in biology in 1984 and a doctorate in psychiatry in 1988
Quote: "Evil is such a subjective idea - if you ask 10 people what evil is, you are likely to get 10 answers ․․․ If we as a society have to separate unusual crimes for greater or lesser punishment, we have to have a fair, consistent way of doing so․"
Best known as a forensic psychiatrist who launched The Forensic Panel in 1998
To aid the courts in what qualifies as a "depraved" crime, he created The Depravity Standard and the Clinical Inventory of the Everyday Extreme and Outrageous