This is depicted by his extensive knowledge of his business’ operations and, most importantly, the meticulous planning of his murders. Brooks further displays his intelligence when he flies to Palo Alto to commit a murder, involving an axe, similar to the one his daughter commits. This will exonerate his daughter as investigators will determine that the killer is still at large. It takes an exceptionally bright individual to think of something of this nature. In “Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture,” Ted Bundy was a law student.
Criminology can be used to reveal how society, police and the media all created a vulnerability that gave Pickton the opportunity to carry out his killings. Abnormal psychology is used to demonstrate his deviance as a result of his childhood experiences along with an incident that occurred with a prostitute. Finally cultural and physical anthropology can illustrate the influence of the social structures surrounding Pickton. Sociology: Criminology The criminology perspective of sociology reveals that Robert Pickton showed very typical characteristics of a serial killer. One of these actions is the fact that he targeted prostitutes and drug addicts from Vancouver’s downtown eastside, which is known for its drug problems.
As he grew older, he had gained more experience after finding love, losing love, being betrayed and abandoned by his college lover Stephanie Brooks, finding out the truth of his family, and developed a dangerously charming, charismatic persona that which he used to abduct over 30 documented women, and then proceeded to murder and rape them (sometimes in that order). He was a cited sociopath, rapist, murderer, and necrophiliac. He managed to get away with murdering over 30 women from 1974 to 1978, and the reason is because he managed to reconstruct himself so efficiently, that nothing seemed psychologically off about him. He
Redefining Stereotypes In Brent Staples essay, “Black Men and Public Spaces” he candidly examines his experiences of being a stereotyped black man. Always feeling like he has to avoid others, or walk on the opposite side of the street just to make people feel comfortable around him. Staples’ personal accounts as well as the life he lived and the things he witnessed as a child influenced the thoughts and ideas for his essay. Through his quick establishment of his own authority and the tones he uses makes this essay literarily effective. Right away, Staples begins claiming authority.
Gangsta rap and American Culture Should censorship come at a price of complete social exile. In “Gangsta Rap and American Culture” Micheal Eric Dyson a baptist minister, father, and prestigious writer and educator explains his views on Gangsta rap both good and bad. Micheal Eric Dyson background allows him to understand how rap came to be. However Dyson doesn't agree with how the government accuses gangsta rap for the downfall of black youth. All in all Dyson's main points to his argument is understanding how rap came to be, the negative and positive images that gangsta rap portrays to the black community, and acknowledging that rap music shows true beliefs about growing up in bad black neighborhoods.
THE PERSONALITY OF A SERIAL KILLER [pic] [pic] [pic] Jeffery Dahmer John Wayne Gacy Theodore Bundy [pic] [pic] [pic] Kristen Gilbert Velma Barfield Albert Fish Mary Chandler 19 February 2007 Wow, where to begin. For many years I have been so intrigued with profiling serial killers, it’s not even funny. I read only true crime novels and mainly watch crime shows and anything that has to do with understanding the criminal minds. Serial killers become celebrities instantly because it points to a fascination we have with the dark, violent places in the human mind. This infatuation is because nearly every serial killer that has been identified is just the guy next door, intelligent, well spoken and/or described as a very nice boy.
In Brent Staples’s essay “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space”, Staples explains how black men are discriminated against in public through the events that happened in his own life and the lives of others. Brent Staple says that stereotypes usually mislead and have bad effects. He says that stereotypes affect the stereotyper. People perceived that Staples was - a black man - as a mugger or sometime even a rapist just because the color of his skin, especially white woman with well dressed, and in her early twenties. The author was known as a night walker.
The other men would not allow him to use his feet due to Crooks’ back but thought it perfectly fine to be fighting him. When Crooks comes into the novel he is described as a “lean negro head, lined with pain,” this is important because it’s the introduction of the many pains which Crooks has. Crooks is both in emotional and physical pain. The emotional pain which Crooks carries with him is due to his loneliness; his isolation from man is causing him to go mad, “guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody”. In isolation from the other men Crooks begins to doubt what he sees.
Staples emphasizes that “Black men have a firm place in New York mugging literature” which has been instilled by the dominant culture who act as victims by stating they recall “growing up in terror of black males” (465). Thus, otherness in society, in terms of color, is almost always looked down upon and perceived as dangerous where as the dominant culture is rarely looked as in such way. People of color are frequently accused of doing wrong even if they are clearly doing no such thing. In fact, Staples explains about an incident in which he was unreasonably accused of being a mugger at a jewelry store. Staples’ skin color immediately caused the “proprietor [to] excuse herself and return with an enormous red Doberman Pinscher” (291).
For nearly 30 years, Helen Morrison has probed the brains of serial killers, she has found what she calls "a cookie-cutter syndrome," a striking similarity in serial killers: They tend to be hypochondriacs, chatty, remorseless men who are addicted to the most brutal acts -- stabbings, strangulation, rape -- and see their victims as inanimate objects. She has study brains of serial killers and what causes them to be the way they are, but with this brain that she had study, she couldn’t find anything wrong. So she sent it away for more test to be done, and when it came back she wasn’t surprised that it was a normal brain. So now the question is what caused this man to be a serial killer? For three months, people watched, Kevin Kadamus, live with the guilt of killing his 17-year-old son, Jacob, in a hunting accident.