The 22 levels of evil according to the Michael Stone scale

Michael Stone is a doctor specialized in forensic psychiatry from Columbia University who has dedicated most of his life to studying and analyzing in detail the behaviors of all types of murderers. Thanks to all that research, he was able to develop the scale of evil.

Most Evil: building an evil scale

Stone directed the show Most evil (in Spain, Profile of a psychopath) In the channel Discovery Max, where he exposes this classification that he calls "scale of evil. In the different chapters of the program the life and crimes of several murderers are shown, on which an investigation is carried out and each case is explained in detail, taking into account all the factors that have been able to influence, predispose and explain the reason for their behavior, in order to be able to classify it later in said scale.

A tool to assess the degree of psychopathy

The scale of evil it was painstakingly created with attention to many types of factors: environmental, neurological, and genetic. The objective was to break down each case into small units, as if it were molecules, in order to have the largest possible precision and determine the reason why a person might commit something as heinous as a murder.

On the scale of evil, questions are raised that help the professional to know the particularities of each case. For example, explore whether the subject had a traumatic childhood, their motivations for committing murders, why they have preferences for some victims or others... A key point in this scale of evil is, worth the redundancy, evil and sadism itself. said embodied in the crime, that is, its meditation, the method of death that was used, etc. Therefore, judgments of value, morality, ethics and others are used to classify the subjects at a specific point within this scale.

Analyzing the killer's mind and brain

In addition, Stone allows us to delve deep into the mind of the murderer, examining how the brains of people who commit blood crimes work, as well as their feelings towards the victim depending on the degree of evil in which they are based on their scale of evil.

Sometimes the information is complemented with brain scan tests, making the person visualize different Pictures and words that are emotionally unpleasant, or otherwise, that is, images that evoke positive feelings such as love.

The 22 levels of evil

The scale in question it is a hierarchy that progressively ascends from level 1 to 22, being minimal or no evil (level 1) to maximum (level 22).

After this introduction, we will learn about the scale model and its different levels.

• Level 1: they killed exclusively in legitimate defense, they do not show any kind of psychopathic tendency.

• Level 2: crimes of passion committed by jealous lovers. They can be immature and / or self-centered but they are not psychopaths.

• Level 3: companions, partners or enthusiastic lovers of dangerous murderers. They have impulsive and aberrant personalities with antisocial traits.

• Level 4: they kill in self-defense, but largely caused the aggression towards them to take place.

• Level 5: psychologically traumatized individuals who are desperate and murder relatives who sexually abused them. Drug addicts whose motive for their murder is to obtain money or drugs can be included, but they do not have significant psychopathic characteristics. They have some remorse for the acts committed.

• Level 6: they act impulsively, "hot". They do not have marked psychopathic characteristics.

• Level 7Highly narcissistic individuals, not distinguishable from people with some type of psychotic disorder, kill people in their environment mainly out of jealousy or passion.

• Level 8: non-psychopathic people but with high levels of repressed anger, they kill when some event triggers or ignites it.

• Level 9: Jealous, spiteful lovers with psychopathic characteristics.

• Level 10: murderers who killed people who stood in his way or witnesses who could expose him. Have egocentric personality but not clearly distinguishable psychopathic.

• Level 11: the same as level ten but this time with a remarkable psychopathic personality.

• Level 12: Power-hungry psychopaths who murdered when they felt cornered.

• Level 13: psychopaths full of fury, which lost control of it.

• Level 14- Ruthlessly self-centered psychopathic conspirators, wish to make a profit from someone.

• Level 15: multi-homicidal psychopaths who in a day of outburst of fury (spree killing) kill so many people they cross in front of him in cold blood.

• Level 16: psychopaths who commit several or multiple criminal acts, do not settle for murder once and can include vicious acts.

• Level 17: sexually perverse serial killers and torturer-murderers, although their main purpose is rape since the subsequent homicide is for the purpose that the victim does not report it.

• Level 18: murderers who usually torture their victims beforehand, although their main motivation is murder.

• Level 19: psychopaths inclined towards terrorism, subjugation, rape and intimidation.

• Level 20: torturers and psychotic killers in whom torture is the main motivation.

• Level 21: psychopaths extremely interested in torture, but who is not known for sure if they have committed homicides.

• Level 22: extreme torturers and psychopathic killers, of which torture is the main motivation. His crimes involve prolonged sexual torture, followed by the murder of his victims.

Profile of a psychopath

Finally, here we provide the link with several chapters of the program "Profile of a psychopath", so that you can observe how different distinguished murderers are classified on the scale of evil. You can also see the program currently on television on the channel Discovery Max.