Jeffrey Dahmer Case Summary

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These three cases have made headlines in the United States, whether that was due to the notorious crime or the insanity of the criminal. They all helped strengthen the criminology field, for example the case of Jeffrey Dahmer helped jerus better understand mental disorder and there were even plans of using his trial as a teaching device to help better understand and help other criminals with mental illnesses in the future.The Jeffrey Dhamer case was the strongest case due to it being the most public case out of the three that were used. Overall through the analysis of criminology followed by developmental psychology and the part that they partake in solving cases, in three cases it is evident how much the criminology field has evolved. The first case being a confucius and unorderly settled followed by a more hectic case that was settled with greater result and lastly a case that was …show more content…
Because there is various ways to address the topic, it was difficult to choose a way that would not go on a tangent. The way the information was organized could have been done better in order to have a greater understanding of each individual case provided.
When analyzing the Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Jared Lee Leghigned cases there seems to be an evolution of criminology which leads to the questions of whether the criminology system evolves as the time goes by or does it evolve and more notorious cases foil out? Does it take a massive shooter killer to build new ways to better secure the safety of a nation? The most important question that came about while analysing the criminology field was, in which ways has criminology evolved in order to stop these crimes that make headlines in every news media and terrify an entire

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