Looks like our field is going to take another beating by the press over this "affluenza" business. The case certainly touches sensitive cultural nerves: anger about how the rich can get away with murder, anger whenever inequality is found. Unfortunately, we also see a theme we've all heard before: that psychologists help criminals get off their sentences by blaming their past. On the other hand, I am seeing in press reports that "affluenza" is not a term found in the DSM, but still...Also, if it psychology's "fault" that a judge made the decision not to jail him? And who exactly is Dr. G. Dick Miller?
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