The Choice of Crime or The Inevitability of Crime
Most people have gotten a speeding ticket at least once in their life, or a parking citation, or some people might have gotten into a little trouble with the law when they were younger. Fighting “the man” and resisting authority figures is something that is another chapter in most people’s lives. However for some they can never turn the page. Stuck in a life of crime that goes against many laws and morals that our society has chosen are important enough to put in place consequences for these actions. For some it’s because of necessity for money to support them. Motive can be tricky to understand because in some cases it is simply circumstance, others it is opportunity, and for a few it is simply …show more content…
Motive is something that varies from person to person, and including the crime, time, place, and who’s involved there are a difficult amount of variables to deal with. Because of motive being such a convoluted and complicated subject to deal with it is more simple to try and understand crimes that do not have a motive, and that in most cases leads the conversation of “are there natural born criminals” into the realm of serial killers. John Wayne Gacy is a prime example of someone with a troubled childhood and life that ended at the hands of a man with a needle. Executed in 1994 for the murder of thirty-three boys between 1972 and 1978 Gacy would forever earn a place of infamy as one of the most dangerous serial killers in the history of the United States. John Wayne Gacy was badly beaten as a child by his alcoholic father, which could have contributed to his murdering as an adult. Traumatic events that happen in childhood are not unusually common to find having ripple effects in adult hood. Since all of John Wayne Gacy’s victims were young boys and John Wayne Gacy may have been acting the same way his father acted towards him when he was a boy. Obviously to a much more serious degree but the general acts of violence remained constant. This points towards the indication that violence is experienced and because that is an action that an individual normalizes then their actions appear normal to themselves when they commit these heinous crimes. John Wayne Gacy is an extreme example, but abusing young boys isn’t the only thing that can leave an impression on those who are abused as a child. One in three of who are abused as a child according to Canadian Abuse statistics will become abusers. This can lead to a legacy of abuse throughout generations, and because each of those children are abused the likely hood of them being involved in
Most people have gotten a speeding ticket at least once in their life, or a parking citation, or some people might have gotten into a little trouble with the law when they were younger. Fighting “the man” and resisting authority figures is something that is another chapter in most people’s lives. However for some they can never turn the page. Stuck in a life of crime that goes against many laws and morals that our society has chosen are important enough to put in place consequences for these actions. For some it’s because of necessity for money to support them. Motive can be tricky to understand because in some cases it is simply circumstance, others it is opportunity, and for a few it is simply …show more content…
Motive is something that varies from person to person, and including the crime, time, place, and who’s involved there are a difficult amount of variables to deal with. Because of motive being such a convoluted and complicated subject to deal with it is more simple to try and understand crimes that do not have a motive, and that in most cases leads the conversation of “are there natural born criminals” into the realm of serial killers. John Wayne Gacy is a prime example of someone with a troubled childhood and life that ended at the hands of a man with a needle. Executed in 1994 for the murder of thirty-three boys between 1972 and 1978 Gacy would forever earn a place of infamy as one of the most dangerous serial killers in the history of the United States. John Wayne Gacy was badly beaten as a child by his alcoholic father, which could have contributed to his murdering as an adult. Traumatic events that happen in childhood are not unusually common to find having ripple effects in adult hood. Since all of John Wayne Gacy’s victims were young boys and John Wayne Gacy may have been acting the same way his father acted towards him when he was a boy. Obviously to a much more serious degree but the general acts of violence remained constant. This points towards the indication that violence is experienced and because that is an action that an individual normalizes then their actions appear normal to themselves when they commit these heinous crimes. John Wayne Gacy is an extreme example, but abusing young boys isn’t the only thing that can leave an impression on those who are abused as a child. One in three of who are abused as a child according to Canadian Abuse statistics will become abusers. This can lead to a legacy of abuse throughout generations, and because each of those children are abused the likely hood of them being involved in