It was of particular interest to forensic psychiatrists and criminologists as it and haltlose personality disorder were considered the only two psychopathies that "had high levels of criminal behavior" without external influence, and thus made up the minority of psychopaths who are "virtually doomed to commit crimes" by virtue only of their own constitution.
[5] Homburger opined that there was no means of rehabilitating youth, as they were disrespectful and devoid of any moral sense – taking pleasure in images of vengeance and screaming madly.
[1] Dr. E.H. Hughes noted that two-thirds of Huntington's disease patients had previously been diagnosed as Haltlose or Gemütlose psychopaths.
[8][9] After two decades of an unstable life that involved pimping among other crimes, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1939; there are no further records of him.
Even with weeks of institutional observation, the certainty of our diagnostic aids can remain doubtful...under certain circumstances a doctor will advise medical care even at the risk of learning the patient cannot improve as a result of mental illness and will end up in a madhouse.