EVALUATION SUMMARY

for

ROBIN

The subject is one of the founding members of the Teen Titans. Before that he fought crime alongside Batman in Gotham City. He stands five feet eight and a half inches tall and weights 143 pounds. He is approximately 18 years old and has been fighting crime for approximately seven years.

The subject has the physique of an olympic gymnast, and is renowned for his leaping, tumbling and climbing ability. In addition, he's reputed to have achieved black belt status in at least five different martial arts fighting methods. The subject has no super power and is not a "metahuman" as such but has a genius for organizing and forming strategies and is the acknowledged leader of the Titans. In addition to his ability at hand to hand combat he utilizes a collapsible bo-staff and projectile disks of various function called "birdarangs".

The subject was tutored in crime fighting by the formidable Batman and, in turn, tutors his teammates. He also serves as the team's liaison to Interpol, other metahuman crime fighting groups, the Jump City Police Department and other local and national law enforcement and security agencies.

His first known appearance as a crime fighter was on May 17, 2001. It was noted in the next day's issue of the Gotham Times in an article headlined "Batman and Unknown Boy Subdue Bank Robbers". A Nexis database search from that date forward revealed more than a thousand separate incidents of public notice of Robin fighting crime with no reported instances of Robin harming an innocent person.

The impetus for the subject's entrance into the profession of crime fighting was personal loss. The pain of the loss was so great that it galvanized the subject into action at a very young age, enabled him to endure an extremely difficult training process under the direction of Batman and led him to patrol beside the caped crusader. In some cases such as this, the change in a person's psychology is so great, and the specific desire for revenge so great that transgression across ethical boundaries becomes almost inevitable. I don't believe that is the case for Robin. While his devotion to crime fighting is so complete that it sometimes causes him friction even with other team members and auxiliary Titans, there is simply no record of either a violation of rights or indifference to rights as would certainly have resulted in seven years of ardent crime fighting if ethical standards no longer superseded desire for vengeance in the subject's mind.

But, because of the subject's noted intensity, I further reviewed the available psychiatric literature on the topic. I found that typical warning signs that usurpation of the pre-eminence of ethical standards in the mind of a police officer by lust for vengeance is imminent, are identified by Vaughn and Travers (2005), James (1999) and Standrowicz (1996), the seminal papers on police violence in psychiatric literature. These studies, together reviewed the cases of some 1500 police officers of various jurisdictions who were disciplined, suspended or fired for having engaged in a brutal or vengeful pattern of behavior. These studies are relevant as the essential nature of the subject is as an agent of the law, even if the subject is not specifically a police officer. The warning signs cited include an excessive focus on one suspect beyond what is merited by the available evidence. This is believed to by symptomatic of some aspect of a suspect triggering the officer's identification of the suspect with the party ultimately sought for cathartic vengeance. It is believed to be a signal that the locus of the officer's decision making is in the process of switching from ethical standards of conduct to that of closest identification with the party sought for vengeance. A second sign is reckless decision making in the apprehension of a suspect, indifference to the life and limb of bystanders and a pattern of questionable decisions as to how a suspect is apprehended which consistently result in the necessity of physical violence upon suspects. Another sign is indifference to the well being of suspects both during apprehension and under custody. This is obviously symptomatic of an officer's inability to control a rising desire for vengeance in the dangerous context of a suspect completely under the sway of an arresting officer. It includes delay in bringing medical care to perpetrators and the whole gamut of behavior typically explained away afterwards with such claims as that a suspect "tripped and fell" on his way into the station house or "forgot to duck his head" when put in the arresting officer's car.

With the help of officer Winston Taylor of the Jump City Police Department, I reviewed more than 200 cases in which Robin was prominently involved. I could not find any evidence in any of them of his indulging in any of these behaviors noted as likely precursors to a substitution of desire for vengeance, particular or generalized, for ethical standards.

The subject is very intelligent with an amazing recall ability noted by more than one police officer in both his Gotham City Police Department and Jump City Police Department files. He understands both complex legal and ethical issues. He shows genuine sympathy for the unfortunate and downtrodden, likely from self-identification with their plight due to his earlier loss. He seems to derive sincere pleasure from helping them.

Most evaluations such as this would include a physical to determine if the subject suffers from any physical condition that will affect his outlook or judgement. I contacted S.T.A.R. Labs requesting all pertinent data on Robin's physical condition. I was informed that all such data is privileged by the doctor patient relationship in the same way that the information between a patient and psychiatrist is. Nevertheless, S.T.A.R. Labs was kind enough to provide the following information:

"We have performed four complete physical evaluations of the Teen Titan known as "Robin", including complete blood, CT and MRI as well as other analyses using start of the art equipment and processing techniques. Robin is in amazing physical condition. We are not aware of any illness or ailment from which Robin suffers which in any way impairs his judgement or mental functioning.

Robin

Age: Approximately 18 years old

Height: Five feet eight and a half inches

Weight: 143 pounds

Fat Percentage: 1.7 percent

Chest: 40 inches

Waist: 30 inches

Hips: 36 inches

Neck: 15.5 inches

Bicep: 13.5 inches

Thigh: 22.5 inches

Calf: 14.5 inches"

In my best professional judgement, I find that the subject, Robin, does not constitute a danger to himself or others.