Sutherland’s differential association theory imputes the cause of crime to intimate social contacts and learnt behaviour (Bernard, et al., 2010 p.180). Sutherland made criminologists aware of “white collar criminals” by introducing the term and by making society aware of middle and high class criminals and crimes (Sutherland, 1983). When Sutherland originally attempted to publish his book on white collar crime the Indiana University and Dryden (who the f is Dryden?) demanded the removal of names from his book, due to possible backlash it would cause and alienation of the wealthy businesses who contributed to the university (Sutherland, 1983). His book was eventually published in 1949 without the names of companies he accused of committing criminal behaviour (Sutherland, 1983).
Steve Harmon’s Verdict Steve Harmon is a young adolescent, who is without a doubt in my mind, innocent, until he is proven guilty. Steve Harmon’s innocence is being completely annihilated, and with lack of evidence, is being labeled as a “monster”, as Ms. Petrocelli characterizes Mr. Harmon, placing him with the delinquents who actually deserve the verdict of murder. Mr. Harmon is being charged with murder, with extreme deficiency of evidence, only just being a bystander, and is being withhold in prison, without even given a release on own recognizance (r.o.r) due for this being his first charge. Anyone who is in the same position as him is innocent, until actually proven evidence that the defendant had physical involvement in the crime. The evidence that is being held against Mr. Harmon is that he was in the drugstore, at the same time when his accomplices, Mr. Evans, Mr. King, and Mr. Cruz were robbing the store, which led to the homicide of Mr. Nesbitt.
Medical experts , disagree over whether the brain tumor found in his autopsy had any effect on his actions (A+E Networks, 2012). The actions taken Whitman should be studied even further, his mental state could reveal whether serial killers do in fact suffer from some form of mental illness. This could also be a new defense for criminals who commit violent acts in the future, by claiming that they committed these crimes due to a mental illness and were not responsible for their own actions. Whitman’s actions may have been
The documentary “High on Crack Street” makes every viewer wonder just what made these somewhat “normal” people turn into what society would see as social deviants. In early history, determining what made a criminal do what he or she does was usually targeted at physical appearances. Early sociologists said that you could determine if someone was a criminal by features in the face like a strong jaw, or deep set eyes. They never set out to answer the question as to why they committed criminal acts; all that public officials did was charge someone who “looked” like a criminal as guilty and the reasoning was that they had the physical appearance of a criminal. Other methods of determining if someone was a criminal was
The two find many bodies that have just had limbs and then they also found bodies with extra organs. The assumed killer is named “the surgeon.” The police cannot figure out a pattern to his work and no one suspects there could be more than one killer on the loose. ‘”So he was some kind of freak,” Michael said. “He looked normal on the outside. Maybe not a male model, but not the Elephant Man, either.
Jeffrey believes that the government secured his conviction unlawfully by suppressing evidence, that there was no evidence that supported Jeffrey’s account. The government countered by saying that the suppressed evidence was crucial to his ability to defend that non-factual members were at the crime scene and that many of those items were found under finger nail tips and other critical locations would logically be viewed as signatures left by the murders. The FBI lab releases a list of examined evidence, the debris from the club was wool black fibers not pajama top wool fibers. Murtagh proclaims he did not know about the fibers and signs an affidavit swearing so. In 1986 Beasley gives a statement of facts to Ted L. Gunderson.
OJ had written a book called "If I did It" Where he lays out how he would have committed the murder. Why would anyone even want to write a book about the crime if you really had nothing to do with it? Simpson is protected by double jeopardy, he can't be put on trial for the crime again. He pretty much confessed everything about the crime in the book, but the cops can’t do anything about it now. The problem that made the prosecution lose the case was the fact that the police mismanaged the evidence and made the jury have enough doubt not to convict OJ
The overt act is knowingly committed in an effort to further the purpose of the conspiracy. This is similar to #3 shooting the clerk was part of the plan before entering the store to commit robbery. I’m not a big fan on the whole Insanity Plea so I’m including a brief history of the different capacity test of insanity that has been use in the past. We all know that a person cannot be held accountable for crimes resulting from the condition where he or she is found legally
Weekly Position Paper #1 Equality in the Justice System Although many researchers have found biological reasoning toward many serial killings, it is no reason to justify serial killers’ acts and harm onto society. It is believed that many serial killers are perceived to have a mental disorder of some kind, causing them to enact in murders without feeling any guilt or concern over their actions. Jack Pemment’s “What Would We Find Wrong in the Brain of a Serial Killer?” depicts the mental disorders: Atisocial Personailty Disorder (APD), Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Narcisstic Personality Disorder (NPD) and schizophrenia in the order from most recognized to least. All four have the common characteristic that serial killers are biologically affected mentally, which affects their lack of emotional reaction or empathy as far as their knowing of good from bad, right from wrong. Researchers and scientists have diagnosed four types of symptoms and their characteristics, but just because many serial
Jack The Ripper Who doesn’t recognize Jack the Ripper as one of the most notorious killers of all time? He was never caught and was one of the first serial killers to prey on innocent citizens. I don’t believe that it was the fault of the police for not capturing Jack the Ripper for many reasons. Apart from the lack of technology which limited the police to witnesses there are many other significant reasons for never finding and stopping the Whitechapel murderer. Although there is overwhelming evidence to say that the police did their best there are still two sides to the argument.