What would life be like if one could get away with illegal actions and weren’t held responsible for their behaviors? What would it be like to have a cold and empty heart that contained a strong lack of empathy towards the people of today’s society? More importantly, what characteristics of a “normal” human mimic ones of a psychopath? Although the majority of psychopaths are immediately put into the category of “crazy”, they share common factors with normal people than one might think. Psychopaths are productive in society, have elements of emotion, and share correlated brain patterns with the “normal” people that are classified as non-psychopathic.
Prejudice is a feeling of dislike towards a person or a group of people based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and anything else that might set a person or group of people out as being different. Discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to people and groups of people because of prejudice. Stereotypes are a generalization of a group of people, usually an inaccurate generalization. (Schaefer, 2013) Prejudice and stereotyping are not actions. Discrimination is different because it is an action against a person or a group of people.
Finally, the paper will evaluate two strategies to overcome social biases. Social biases are harmful and can cripple interactions between individuals. Prejudice is a negative attitude focused on a particular group based solely on generalizations that derive from erroneous or sketchy information. (Hackman&Katz, 2010). Prejudice is adverse opinions derived from a stereotype against an individual or specific group.
I have concluded that substance abuse is a huge contributor to crimes being committed. The lack or decrease in moral intuition and character can cause a person to make bad decisions. This would cause people not to understand the benefits of to abiding to common social values. A person demographics can also play a role in determining whether or not an individual will turn to a life of crime. Government officials, politicians, and courts employees have concluded that individuals commit crimes for private alternatives and they should be punished and held responsible for their actions and conduct.
Persistently irresponsible, they are impulsive violators of what are considered social norms. They disregard the feelings of others, while feeling no guilt or remorse for actions they have done (Cavadino, 1998). Because psychopathy and sociopathy are often confused, it is important to differentiate between the two types of personality disorders. What makes a sociopath separate from the psychopath is “sociopathy is not a formal psychiatric condition. It refers to patterns of attitudes that are considered to be antisocial and criminal by society at large, but are seen as normal or necessary by the subculture or social environment in which they developed” (Babiak & Hare, 2007, p. 26).
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.
It has received more attention and has been studied more than any other personality disorder. This disorder is characterized by a pattern of disregarding and violating others' rights and safety Common symptoms of antisocial personality disorder are: Defiant: People with antisocial personality disorder do not feel it necessary to live by the norms and laws for behavior dictated by society. They regularly perform illegal acts that are grounds for arrest. Lack of remorse and empathy: Individuals with this disorder have no feelings of remorse for those whom they hurt. In fact, they may blame the victim for making them act in the harmful manner.
There also negative attitudes that the society portrays that contribute to the stigmatization. This makes people to feel different from others, rejected, and excluded from the society. However, as part of the society victims should be embraced and supported all through the recovery time to avoid that feel of shame and embarrassment. Stigma is defined as a mark of social humiliation where people are labelled by their condition and separated from others, which can form a negative stereotype and prejudice for the person with depression disorder (WHO, 2011). Goffman (1968), did some research on stigma which he referred to as ‘spoiled identity’ and he developed some ideas about identities and how they are presented in social roles.
Individuals have the most negative category-based responses to the groups that they do not personally belong (outgroups) and usually have more positive views on one’s own group (ingroup). Stereotyping involves attaching to a person, one’s cognitive expectancies and associations regarding the group. They are basically beliefs about the characteristics of group members and theories about why those qualities go together. They are set ideas that go together with a category, acting to justify our affective and behavioral reactions to the category. The reason I’m discussing category-based responses, beliefs regarding characteristics of group members, and set ideas is because they all influence our tendency to stereotype.
RACISM AND ETHNICITY QUESTION: TO WHAT EXTENT AND HOW DOES INSTITUTIONAL RACISM OPERATE IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING, POLICING, SCHOOLING, HOUSING/URBAN REGENRATGION THE MASS MEDIA. The principle aim of this essay is to explain the impact of institutional racism and to what extent it operates in policing in UK. Racism is any negative actions or words that are aimed at demeaning other people denying them opportunities base on their racial background. The believe that other people have superior traits than other has led to the rise of racism in the society and that includes United Kingdom (Muji & Solomon, 2010). Institutional racism ensures that people of different races receive different treatment and opportunities in public services within the society and it also denied other things such as benefits, rewards that other individual might be entitle to in normal cases.