Who Is John Norman Collins Or The Co-Ed Killer?

The American television network Investigation Discovery airs a television series called “A Crime to Remember”, which shows the most compelling crimes of the past in United States history. In the televisions first season, it aired an episode titled “A New Kind of Monster”, and in this episode it reacted a series of murders between 1967-1969 of young females from Eastern Michigan University. The murder of all the victims name is John Norman Collins also known as “The Co Ed Killer”. John Norman Collins is now 69 years of age and serving a life sentence for first degree murder. Collins is now labeled as a serial killer who caused havoc in the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan. Collins was convicted of one murder who was his last victim (Karen Su Beineman), but Collins is associated with the killings of roughly seven girls within the Ypsilanti, …show more content…
Ronald Aker whom is still active within the sociological realm coined “Social Learning Theory”, for Aker wanted to update Edwin Sutherland’s “Differential Association Theory”. Ronald Aker believed in two assumptions regarding human nature. First, Aker believed that “Humans are born with a ‘blank slate’”, which is similar to the assumptions about humans held by Edwin Sutherland. Also, Aker believed that there were no real differences between individuals, but Aker believed these assumptions about humans could be relaxed in reference to ‘non-social reinforcement’. Aker took Sutherland’s theory of “Differential Association”, and developed for postulates which include: differential association (coined from Sutherland), excess of definitions favorable towards delinquency (coined from Sutherland), differential