When discussing this topic you should make careful references to different types of Audience theory as appropriate. Over the years, the representation of violence in the media has become increasingly intense and more graphic. This has led to several enquires about the impacts of these portrayals of violence in the media. There have also been questions if the adult audience of the media today should be as concerned as the adults in the 1930s were. Media is the plural of medium which is a means of communication, that is, a channel through which people send and receive information.
Recognition of the dangerous harm of these acts is responded to in the form of hate crime laws. These laws are a legal attempt at recognizing the harm of this form of aggression. It also notes the importance of implementing sanctions against these acts. According to the Uniform Crime Reports, which is reported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, “almost 8,000 hate crime incidents were reported to the police in 2006” (Zaykowski, H., 2010). In 2010 the Bureau of Justice Statistics report estimated that over 200,000 individual's are victims of hate crimes each year.
This has become a threat to American security and the American people in general. To battle against this issue, Congress has upheld the Anti-Terrorism Act in 1996. One of the best examples on examining these acts of uproar can be viewed, seen and understood by studying the case of the Oklahoma bombing which occurred in 1996. Major newspaper headlines have also described the World Trade Center bombing, the Unabomber’s arrest, and Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta as other major cases. All this demonstrates how sinister1 terrorism is in American society.
Discuss approaches to profiling There are three approaches to criminal profiling; the British approach, the US approach and Geographical Profiling. The US approach is a top down approach which means they start with the big parts of the case and work down to the smaller things involved. The approach was invented by the FBI in the 1970’s when they first looked at the family backgrounds, personalities, behaviours, crimes and motives of serial killers who had sexual aspects to their crimes. They then went on to use in-depth interviews with 36 serial killers. The information they gathered from this and the FBI’s experience and intuition they developed the classification system.
However we must be aware that these official statistics are not accurate due to the selective law enforcement, where men are targeted more often as they fit the stereotype of a criminal which leads onto the chivalry factor where men have protective attitudes towards women. Therefore the Criminal Justice System treat women more leniently thus their crime is less likely to end up in official statistics; hence some sociologists argue official statistics underestimate the amount of female crime. Typically female crimes such as shoplifting are less likely to be reported. Similarly prostitution, committed by more women is more likely to go unreported. Even when women’s crimes are reported they’re less likely to be prosecuted or be let off lightly.
Compare of serial murders investigators Timothy F. Goodson Albright College Crime and Justice This is the critical and comparative analysis of the two books that were required readings for this Advanced Criminology Seminar. The two books tied " Whoever Fights Monsters " by Robert H. Ressler and "Journey Into Darkness" by John Douglas. In this comparative analysis I will look at the differences of the a of the authors Ressler and Douglas, their differences in profiling, and my personal reaction to both of their books. In likeness both Ressler and Douglas were career agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The investigated violent crimes that came came under the jurisdiction of the FBI.
Hate crime is a crime when a harm done to a person because that persons belongs to a particular group. Sometimes like in the case of hate crime legislation there is a dispute about whether the hate crime legislation are to be justified in liberal societies. In her article “Why liberals should hate ’hate crime legislation’” Heidi M. Hurd define hate crimes from a different point of view. She claims that the hate crime is based on a character which is unacceptable in liberal societies, she discusses the difference between the hate and bias crimes and other crimes as from the perspective of punishment and the moral and political impact that this base has. Hate crimes penalties are greater than other crimes because of two main reasons first is that they are target to communities and second the individual who commit hate crime need to have greater culpability then those who commit a regular crime, based on those two reasons legislating a hate crime on character the liberal society might lose of its features.
They began researching backgrounds, personalities and behaviours etc with sexual aspects to serial killers. These included 36 in-depth interviews with 36 convicted murderers. Using past experience the FBI came up with a classification system for several crimes including ones for rape and murder. They claimed that the criminal displayed a certain set of characteristics. The analysis of the crime scene indicates towards what kind of perpetrator they’d be dealing with, so the classification system can be used to determine the characteristics they might have.
This can end up with a person have racial profiling used against them and making a negative impact on their life. Most of the ideas of racial profiling come from the media (Mass Media). The Mass Media includes forms of communication that becomes exaggerated form the truth for ratings. Reporters would use the most extreme and dramatic story that they could find, to have on the news, for that day. Mass Media author, Jennifer Akins, states “…because the media are so prevalent in industrialized countries, they have a powerful impact on how those populations view the world.” This shows that people rely on the media for views on the world.
Hate crimes are still very real in today’s world. There is more than one type of hate crime in the United States. Hate crimes are attacks against a person, property or even the society and are because of racism. Even though the Civil Rights Act was passed the people are still acting out and violating harmless victims because of racism. It is surprising the statistics even for 2012 of the violate attacks against the victims.