Reminding the world and those caught in the grip of the justice system that both accused and adjudicated are human.
Jul 5, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Thread: Stockholm Syndrome is not a thing. It isn't real. It is a phrase that was published in news stories after a 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden in which the police were dumbfounded that the hostages were protective of their captors.
The hostages had spent six days locked up with two men in the bank and had developed friendships with their two captors. It's reported that a Swedish criminologist, Nils Bejerot is the first one to name the "phenomenon." Afterward, an FBI and later Scotland Yard psychologist
