Toward a Definition of Evil Crimes

A forensic psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine has been trying to standardize definitions of evil crimes based on a societal consensus at http://www.depravityscale.org The definition "evil" has been argued over for centuries, and yet it managed to find its way into our legal system where 39 states punish offenders with harsher sentences if they label the crime as evil or heinous.

How can punishments be fair and just if people are punished on such subjective terminology? This research is an attempt to standardize these legal definitions of evil based on the data that is being gathered at this secure internet website http://www.depravityscale.org You can access this site to read more about the research and various newspaper articles written on the study. Your participation is greatly appreciated.