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Anti-Social Personality Disorders : Compulsive Car Thief

Accession number: 
1962.0037
Production Years: 
1962
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Length (feet): 
1016 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
28
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Library and Archives Canada: 16mm.
"This twenty-one-year-old man is filmed while serving a penitentiary sentence. He had been stealing cars since he was ten. He steals them on impulse, makes no criminal use of the cars and generallly returns them; joy rides, often challenging police to chase him. He seems perfectly normal, is attractive and intelligent and has many friends. The film begs the question - is it a medical or legal problem? Filmed at the Kingston Penitentiary."