An 11-year-old boy, Luke Batty was murdered by his own father, who suffered from mental illness, in the open area in front of his mother and friends. The father, Greg Anderson was later shot by the police at the scene. This crime was a horror example of the poor society system that cannot protect one innocent child from the harm that has been shown the sign for so long. This reflection essay will discuss about the mental illness and crime related to Luke Batty’s case. The relationship of them, the treatment of mental illness and society protection in term of my experience will be explored.
The research has shown that people with mental illness are not necessary violent, they actually as violent as healthy people (Stuart, 2003). Moreover, the …show more content…
The poor treatment of mental illness can raise the rick of violence (Bartol and Bartol, 2014), in other words, the ignorance of people in society towards mental illness issues are actually causing their own risk to become the victim of violence harm from the people with mental disorder. The risk of becoming victim is so great that we might not be able to prevent, as seen in Luke’s case. Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty, had been seeking helps from the courts, child protectors and social workers but she failed to protect Luke. The fact that the crime was conducted in the public place with many people surrounded them was even more terror that there might be nowhere safe enough to hide from them. Though the lack of the cooperating of the police’s information reporting to Rosie can be one of the holes in this protecting net, fixing that hole might not get the situation better as it’s merely just a symptom of this whole problem not a root …show more content…
Luke have not been abuse by Greg in the past but only one knife threat and I personally think that threat is enough reason to keep Luke away from Greg because it has clearly shown the sign that Greg has an idea of harming Luke. He might even plan and try to murder Luke since that conversation. Moreover, when Greg told Cameron Colvin that, ‘Luke is fine in the heaven’ also show that he appreciates his action. Clearly he had already lost the power to make judgment between right and wrong. What is the point of punishing people who cannot even make a simple judgment? I don’t think they will be able to know that fault, even after they had already been
The research has shown that people with mental illness are not necessary violent, they actually as violent as healthy people (Stuart, 2003). Moreover, the …show more content…
The poor treatment of mental illness can raise the rick of violence (Bartol and Bartol, 2014), in other words, the ignorance of people in society towards mental illness issues are actually causing their own risk to become the victim of violence harm from the people with mental disorder. The risk of becoming victim is so great that we might not be able to prevent, as seen in Luke’s case. Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty, had been seeking helps from the courts, child protectors and social workers but she failed to protect Luke. The fact that the crime was conducted in the public place with many people surrounded them was even more terror that there might be nowhere safe enough to hide from them. Though the lack of the cooperating of the police’s information reporting to Rosie can be one of the holes in this protecting net, fixing that hole might not get the situation better as it’s merely just a symptom of this whole problem not a root …show more content…
Luke have not been abuse by Greg in the past but only one knife threat and I personally think that threat is enough reason to keep Luke away from Greg because it has clearly shown the sign that Greg has an idea of harming Luke. He might even plan and try to murder Luke since that conversation. Moreover, when Greg told Cameron Colvin that, ‘Luke is fine in the heaven’ also show that he appreciates his action. Clearly he had already lost the power to make judgment between right and wrong. What is the point of punishing people who cannot even make a simple judgment? I don’t think they will be able to know that fault, even after they had already been