Homicide

Statistics: The Centers for Disease Control listed firearms as the #12 cause of all deaths between 1999 and 2013. They were also the #1 method of death by homicide (66.6% of all homicides) and by suicide (52.2% of all suicides). The biggest argument for guns are for self-defense. People use this argument to justify why gun control would be bad when in reality guns are rarely used for self defense. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 29,618,300 violent crimes committed between…

California, Berkeley, political scientist M. Steven Fish presented cross-national statistical data showing that between 1994 and 2007, annual homicide rates in the Muslim world averaged just 2.4 per 100,000 of the population. That was approximately a third of the rate for the non-Muslim world and less than the average rate in Europe. It is also approximately half the homicide rate in the United States. Do you really believe Islam is violent,…

behavioral and personality traits in conjunction with crime scene characteristics to ascertain a better understanding of the phenomenon of serial homicide. A serial killer is someone who murders three or more people in more than 30 days, and there is a usually a cooling off period in between kills (break in the time of one murder until the next). Serial homicide is typically committed by one individual acting alone. Serial killers are rare,…

fountain of violence and malice that touched their lips? Studies show, since television became a thing, “From 1945 to 1974 homicides in the United States increased 93%”. However, in another study, “From 1900 to 1945 homicides in the US increased 400%” If the information is correct and not biased, media cannot be truly pin pointed as the foundation for the increase in homicides.…

ownership a privilege (not a right), which requires permission from a licensing authority (the State), as with a driver’s license, for the sake of better public safety and security (Elkins, 2012)” (Lemieux 76). If we compare the rates of gun related homicide in the U.S who has little to no firm laws on guns to Japan who has strict laws on gun handling, it seems that it would be better if the U.S set strict laws for guns but, the people seem to disagree with this concept. In La Valle journal, he…

Along with roughly 600 years of guns’ history, guns have always been very influential and they have become the quotidian tools which people would use to hunt for food and protect their loved ones. Unfortunately, in recent time, the wave of anti-gun has expanded due to some of the mass killings happened sporadically around the globe that makes publics believe that guns would only be dangerous tools. But in reality, guns have been used constantly for self-defense and banning guns will actually…

In Cold Blood Remember the murder in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959? Not many people do. In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, good light is shone on this subject. Though this book explains the homicide of the Clutter family, is it a good read? This book goes into great detail of a homicide, and events leading to it. Though well written in parts, it’s not a good read for a younger audience. This book isn’t for younger readers for many reasons. For example, this book is very descriptive, but…

There is no substantial examination on homicides committed by women or an assessment giving an explanation of why they chose to murder people. Part of the explanation is attributed to existing literature focusing on justifiable and excusable homicide, or women who kill their abusive partners because they have been battered, fear that their lives are in danger, or are otherwise victimized (Arrigo & Griffin, 2004). Women that commit homicides does not receive hardly any relevance in literature.…

The murder of JonBenet Ramsey is a famous unsolved homicide where the evidence leads nowhere, the suspects are her own parents or a mystery intruder, and the crime scene is tampered with in every aspect. Six year old JonBenet Ramsey was a beauty pageant queen murdered in cold blood by a murder who was only in it for the money. This case ultimately stands as one of the most important since it was one of the most tampered with. The case takes place in the Ramsey’s house of Boulder, Colorado where…

criminologist Thorsten Sellin conducted a study on the changes in homicide rates in the states that adopted the death penalty and the states that didn’t. This study found that the death penalty had no significant change of the homicide rate in all states. Studies show that the death penalty actually increased crime rates. Some studies conducted in London, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, and California showed a significant rise in homicides in the state after an execution was…