RUNNING HEAD: SHAWCROSS AND STRESS Author Shawcross and Stress Disorders March 16, 2010 Psychology 434-03 INTRODUCTION Every few minutes across the world a group of targeted individuals become murder victims. There are many reasons that people kill and become murderers, many of those issues resolve from psychological problems. Among the numbers of murderers many people become classified or known as serial killers. Our definition of a serial killer is a person that kills a number of people in order to receive gratification. Aurthor Shawcross is a well known serial killer of various types of victims but mainly prostitutes.
Case Study: Robert William Pickton October 10, 2010 Introduction Serial killers have long astonished people throughout history with their sadistic and disturbing behavior. Academics have researched and theorized the question of what factors or influences foster individuals to become serial killers. In the following paper I will do a case study of Robert William Pickton who faced twenty-six-murder charges in 2002. I will analyze the case of Robert Pickton using a different theory in the areas of sociology, psychology and anthropology. 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.
New York: A.A. Knopf :, 1998.] The Nanking Massacre, also called the rape of Nanking, is considered to be one of the most tragic and brutal event that has ever happened in the human history which took away thousands of lives. The encounter of two different groups of people could lead to a war, an alliance, or a mutual beneficial relationship; a brutal massacre happened in the case of the encounter between the Chinese and Japanese. The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe is a collection of the author’s, John Rabe, diaries that he kept with him during the Nanking Massacre; the book gives readers a detail accounts of John Rabe’s experience and the realistic description of the incident. John Rabe was an international businessman who spent almost thirty years of his life in China; throughout the thirty years he spent in China, though he did not learn any Chinese, he learned their lifestyle, their culture and traditions, and he also learned to think like a local Chinese[ Foreword, xiii].This dairy of John Rabe’s lets readers have a deeper understanding of how the Chinese, especially those in Nanking during the massacre, felt when they were under Japanese’s ferocious attack.
How does Lee use details in this passage to show attitudes to race? Racial segregation is a key factor in Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. In the passage we are presented with Lee uses a vast amount of details to show attitudes to race; not just in the fictional town of Maycombe but in most of the world at that time as well. Firstly and mostly it is shown through Mr Dolphus Raymond. Mr Raymond is presented as the town drunk; he is living with and has had children with a black woman.
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird was one of the most prestige’s novel’s of the 20th century. It was written by the author Harper Lee. Harper Lee used racism as the major theme in this novel. This novel shows us how cruel the world can be. Racism is used when Mayella, a character in this story, accuses Tom Robinson, a local black man, of rape.
She later started robbing and killing men sequentially earning the notoriety of being the first female American serial killer. Wuornos experienced “Alloplastic Adaptation.” Coming from a trouble-some childhood and straight into a disturbed adult life; Aileen focused all of her resentment, torture, and grievance into her long history of deviant behaviors. Suffering from metal anguish she took her pain out on others. Abraham Maslow outlines what is known as a hierarchy of needs representing all the various needs that motivate human behavior. In order to achieve “Self-actualization” which is located at the top of the pyramid; one must meet the other needs at the base of the pyramid.
Why was Aaron Kosminski suspected of being the Whitechapel murderer? According to Melville Macnaghten in his 1894 Memoranda one of the three men who was more likely than Thomas Cutbush to have been Jack the Ripper was “Kosminski” who, according to Macnaghten, was “… a Polish Jew, & resident in Whitechapel. This man became insane owing to many years indulgence in solitary vices. He had a great hatred of women, especially of the prostitute class, & had strong homicidal tendencies; he was removed to a lunatic asylum about March 1889…” Kosminski is of particular interest because, in addition to Macnaghten, the two highest ranking officers, with direct responsibility for the Jack the Ripper investigation, also considered him the to be a strong suspect for the Jack the Ripper murders. In 1910 Sir Robert Anderson, Assistant Commissioner throughout the murders, wrote in his memoirs that "…'undiscovered murders’ are rare in London, and the ‘Jack-the-Ripper’ crimes are not in that category...
Kristen Farley Jack the Ripper: Exposed AP European History The dastardly crimes of Jack the Ripper - or Saucy Jack, as he called himself - plagued London from April 1888 to February 1891. [1] The rise of Irish and Jewish immigrants lead to the overpopulation of London and the worsening of living conditions and overall crime. [2] The bloody murders only added to the deterioration and created wide-spread panic all across England and surrounding areas. The case of who committed the crimes and who claims the title of the true Jack the Ripper was never closed. As the facts are laid out, there is only one logical answer to who it could be.
Moses Sithole “The ABC Murderer” World records are being set by South Africa when it comes to the speedy arrest of serial killers, however, this is flawed by the fact that South Africa ranks among three of the world's most notorious countries when it comes to serial Killers. It has been documented that since 1936, 71 serial killers have been identified in South Africa with 11 still being at large. Johannesburg and Pretoria are the worst affected cities in South Africa, and Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal the worst provinces when it comes to serial killers and every year up to five new serial killers are identified across the country. Amongst the most notorious of them is Moses Sithole. Moses Sithole was born in 1964 to Simon & Sophie Sithole, one of five children in Vosloorus, a poor neighbourhood of Boksburg in apartheid-era South Africa.
stretching from the leaders of countries all the way down to local security guards. The most common of type of abusive power holders is the police. Cases of police brutality can be traced back to centuries ago. A very well known case would be the beating of Rodney King in witch the 31 year old African-American was killed, due to unnecessary acts of several police officers. Police violence is an unnecessary act carried out all over the world.