Tiequon Cox Character Analysis

Personality and mental traits is something that cannot be changed in one way or another. Cox because of all of his problems with schooling, his rough childhood, and family displacement, went through lot of psychological changes that made him to become a killer. I do believe that his action are well represented by someone who has problems with his mental balance. Being able to kill kids while they sleep, and massacre four people in one morning leave a possibility that someone who went through a lot of bad in his life has nothing to loose. Cox due to his psychological state, and the fact that he used crack while committing the crime clearly exposes someone who has nothing to loose. Personality theory help to better understand, and explain that …show more content…
Tiequon Cox can be classified as a innovator based on Merton classification of people, because he believes in gaining power, and the socially accepted goals to success, but he wouldn 't follow the conformist way of reaching those goals. He instead creates his own way of getting where he wants to be, by being in a gang, killing, violence, and making himself into a badass prison superstar. His goal in life is the same as the goal of Kermit Alexander and other people in the society, he believed in money, and material things. And example of that is his affiliation with the gangs, the drug dealing, and violent fight for the territory and control with different gangs. Kermit with the same goal of getting money he chose the path of the conformist, with his hard work placed toward football, and being a coach, he gained his fame by following the socially accepted process to get to where he wanted to be. I do believe that Cox, due to his negative youth development, his family situation, and the easy exposure to the gang subculture he committed the violent crimes. The immediate gratification plays a big role in his decision making …show more content…
Cox, and other defendants in the slaying of Alexanders family members are an example of the survival of the fittest. They cannot contribute to the overall well being of the society, and their community, and so they chose to commit crime, sell drugs, and be thugs, rather that be a part of collective. Marx believes that there are two groups of people in the capitalistic system, the rich that grow their properties, and businesses, and those that are laborer, and tend to get poorer. The black neighborhoods, with its deindustrialized community are a perfect example of those that are losers in the capitalistic game of survival of the fittest, and that they would be labeled as