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
Are Families Dangerous? During many years the family has become the nucleus of the society, but Barbara Ehrenreich in her article ‘Are Families Dangerous?’ holds that the family may not be the ideal and perfect living arrangement after all because family is the cradle of gruesome violence. Cases of family violence like the Brother Erik and Lyle Mendez, Lorena Bobbitt and O.J. Simpson and surely other ones, have facing their fears unleashing the mystery openly to what they called family. ‘Home is all too often where the small and weak lie down and shut their eyes’, it’s how exactly the author describes the site where many of domestic violence cases have taken place.
The amount of coverage that Matthews murder received gave a lot of people the idea that his death was of more importance than the death of others in the town. It overshadowed other stories because unlike other murders or deaths, it was motivated by one boy’s sexuality and categorized as a hate crime. It served as an eye opener not only to the people of Laramie but also to the people of the country because discrimination against homosexuals was in some ways a social norm ( and still is), but because someone had actually been murdered because they were homosexual, this was considered by most to be downright unacceptable. In today’s society when you hear that someone was shot to death, it might get a couple days, or a couple minutes of media coverage and then the story will soon fade away, but when you hear that someone was shot and the motivation of the murder was race, or sexual orientation it is often more publicized and gains more media coverage. Although the media makes it out to seem that one’s person’s life is more valuable than another’s, what it comes down to is America’s response, if the media believes that America will have a greater response to one story, that is the story that will be the focus of the media.
One may wonder how a husband or a parent can commit crimes such as these. I hope that the reader will have more understanding and knowledge of why and how a loved one can attack merciless. Introduction When someone close to you such as a family member, ex- boyfriend, ex-girlfriend, spouse or a close acquaintance inflicts murder, sexual abuse or stalking on a victim, it is referred as intimate violence. Majority of the times, intimate violence occurs against women and children the most. In essence, victims of intimate violence may be physically injured or threatened with injury unless they comply with the demands of the offender (Meadows, 2010).
We often judge people by their acts, but most of the time we don’t know that something might have happened in their past for them to act the way they do. For example we have Evey in V for Vendetta. Evey confronted a rapid change from innocence to maturity which makes her do something unexpected in the world, however, she had reasons for it: she almost gets raped, was mistreated for days and V left her in charge of his plans when he died. Eventually Evey’s loss of innocence leads her to understanding the real purpose of V’s acts. Evey’s loss of innocence forced her to undergo many unfortunate situations.
How can we as victims, witnesses, or observers make a change to cyberbullying ? Many parents seem to question their child’s actions on a day-to-day basis. Signs of bullying are things we must observe. Students may come home with damaged or missing items, have difficulty sleeping, or just seemed depressed. The reports on cyberbullies, ruined reputations and dangers have caused so much fear against parents.
ocieties have always placed men and women unequally at many different levels of social organization. Men and women are differently placed and differently rewarded in our society, because of the different positions they hold, different roles they play, and consequently different actions they choose when it comes to violent crimes such as murder and their victims being their children. In other words, social organization is gendered. Most researchers have focused on the gender, race, educational level, and biological factors that contribute to violence and crime. The Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention published an article Parenthood in Murder-Suicide News.
According to www.usda.gov, too many people continue to believe that domestic violence is a private matter between a couple, rather than a criminal offense that merits a strong and swift response. Furthermore, many women are being brutalized and even killed by husbands, boyfriends, and loved ones. Is there ever going to be an end to this brutal act? Is the federal government doing their best to decrease the violence against women in homes? Background & Childhood Domestic violence has been occurring for over a hundred years.
From his letter, we can clearly feel his heart twisted and desire for revenge. It can be said, whether it is the abuser, or the victim, in this environment cannot have a healthy state of mind. Influence The main impact of domestic violence on the development of young people, in 5 years time in 16 years to mature. Injuries resulted from domestic violence, a large number of youth problems, they often strange character, to people, to things indifferent, biased understanding of a variety of charitable activities, and even hostile to the family and society. They evolved from verbal confrontation with their parents to act against, and even become a manufacturer of domestic violence, the path of delinquency.
The Kitty Genovese case was made into a popular case simply because the murder was witnessed by over 30 people and no one called the police to report what was happening. This is called the bystander effect: groups of people witness a crime or an emergency and are reluctant to report for a number of reasons or excuses. In interviews conducted of the people that witnessed the murder, some say they did not report what was happening because he or she did not want to get involved or that they believed someone else had already called the police. Social psychology uses the Kitty Genovese case as an example for the bystander effect and diffusion of responsibility in many textbooks and frequently relates the three. Diffusion of responsibility is what happened in the apartment complex the night of Kitty’s murder.