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Ethan Couch And Affluenza Sparknotes

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Death is inevitable. We choose to put it off, but we never intend to advance it. Unfortunately, death comes sooner than preferred. This applies to the ominous accident of the Boyle family, Brain Jennings, and Breanna Mitchell. On the night of June 15, 2013, Ethan Couch, a six-teen year old privileged male fatally killed four people due to intoxicated driving. Couch was trialed for four accounts of intoxicated manslaughter and two accounts of intoxicated assault. However, Couch was brought up in a wealthy, privileged family that payed for unrivaled lawyers that managed to vindicate his innocence through affluenza, the negative psychological side of being wealthy. This court-case decision shook the world. I believe that Ethan Couch should be held responsible for his actions and found guilty for his heinous crime. …show more content…

Affluenza has been coined as a psychological disease that affects wealthy, privileged kids. It states that it denotes the actions of wealthy kids because of the lack in his or her upbringing. Affluenza has stirred up the psychological field. Although few psychologists accept affluenza, according to Discovery News the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM) does not. The DSM is a book that classifies mental disorders, therefore Judge Jean Boyd, the judge in Couch’s case, does not have the authority to label Couch as a mentally ill person. If psychologists do not recognize affluenza as a mental disorder, then a judge should not have the opportunity to pardon Couch based on an incorrect classification of mental

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