Destiny Howlett
Professor Santiago Cornejo
Crim 102 K13
10 May 2016 The Green River Killer
Gary Leon Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Raised near Seattle's Pacific Highway, an underprivileged neighborhood near SeaTac airport, Ridgway was an unprosperous student. His life at home was what most would call troubled. Relatives and family friends have described his mother as arrogant and have said that young Ridgway witnessed more than one violent dispute between his parents. During his adolescent years Ridgway was tested with an IQ of 82, which is considered below average intelligence. He did extremely poor in both elementary and high school his classmates described him as being quiet and largely characterless. …show more content…
The analysis produced a match between evidence from the victims and Ridgway, and he was charged with four counts of aggravated murder in December 2001. Ridgway eventually pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder. First-degree murder is defined as an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning or "lying in wait" for the …show more content…
Within this theory he believed that he was better and more important than the people he killed. Even though he was a frequent customer of prostitutes, I think that he felt that they were a detriment to society due to his believing in the Christian faith. He was obviously a sex addict and after he engaged in sexual activity with the prostitutes he felt dirty and that he had broken the Christian faith that he was so in love with. To make it all better he would get rid of them by murdering the prostitutes. He would keep doing it over and over because each time he did it he felt disgusting. Within the labeling theory I think he falls under the primary deviance. He was engaging in activity with deviant people but he was never labeled as a deviant with them. They are the ones doing it, and he felt that he wasn’t the one committing the deviant acts until he after and then he had to kill them to erase that memory and try to make good again. Overall this man was a major deviant person in society, and he doesn’t deserve another chance. He had an option, to commit the deviant acts with them, or not even do it. Instead of turning his check to this type of life, he faced forward and went straight with it. This man is a major deviant and detriment to
Professor Santiago Cornejo
Crim 102 K13
10 May 2016 The Green River Killer
Gary Leon Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Raised near Seattle's Pacific Highway, an underprivileged neighborhood near SeaTac airport, Ridgway was an unprosperous student. His life at home was what most would call troubled. Relatives and family friends have described his mother as arrogant and have said that young Ridgway witnessed more than one violent dispute between his parents. During his adolescent years Ridgway was tested with an IQ of 82, which is considered below average intelligence. He did extremely poor in both elementary and high school his classmates described him as being quiet and largely characterless. …show more content…
The analysis produced a match between evidence from the victims and Ridgway, and he was charged with four counts of aggravated murder in December 2001. Ridgway eventually pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated first-degree murder. First-degree murder is defined as an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning or "lying in wait" for the …show more content…
Within this theory he believed that he was better and more important than the people he killed. Even though he was a frequent customer of prostitutes, I think that he felt that they were a detriment to society due to his believing in the Christian faith. He was obviously a sex addict and after he engaged in sexual activity with the prostitutes he felt dirty and that he had broken the Christian faith that he was so in love with. To make it all better he would get rid of them by murdering the prostitutes. He would keep doing it over and over because each time he did it he felt disgusting. Within the labeling theory I think he falls under the primary deviance. He was engaging in activity with deviant people but he was never labeled as a deviant with them. They are the ones doing it, and he felt that he wasn’t the one committing the deviant acts until he after and then he had to kill them to erase that memory and try to make good again. Overall this man was a major deviant person in society, and he doesn’t deserve another chance. He had an option, to commit the deviant acts with them, or not even do it. Instead of turning his check to this type of life, he faced forward and went straight with it. This man is a major deviant and detriment to