Murder of James Bulger

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, public misfit, murderer, racketeer and arms dealer, all characteristics contributing to his status as a mobster. Currently 86 years old, Whitey Bulger has had a full life of crime beginning at the early age of 14. In the time since Whitey’s legacy has stretched from theft, forgery, assault and battery, larceny and armed robbery as a youth, to bank robberies, murder and becoming an enforcer for crime lord Donald Killeen. After Killeen’s death, Bulger joined the Winter Hill…

Whitey Bulger was first arrested at the age of 14 for stealing, his criminal record online got bigger from there. In his youth he was arrested for a number of things including larceny, forgery armed robbery and more. he served five years in a juvenile reformatory. when he was released he joined the Air force; where he also was put in military jail for assault and going AWOL. He was given an honorable discharge in 1952 he later returned to Boston, and thus begun a life of crime. Bulger was…

Cooper, tells the true story of James “Whitey” Bulger, an organized crime boss of the Boston Irish Mob crew known as the Winter Hill Gang. Following the story from the New York Times best-selling book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, the movie recounts the events from 1975 when Whitey was a small-time gangster, up to his eventual capture in 2011, ending his 12 year streak on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The movie stars Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger and follows Whitey as his hold…

James Bulger was a two year old boy, from Kirby, England, who was murdered by two ten year old boy’s names Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. Bulgers’ body was found on a railway line two days after his murder. Thompson and Venables were charged on the 20th of February 1993 with the abduction and murder of James Bulger. In this report it will review several psychological theories trying to explain how two boys so young could commit just vicious crimes. (Urbas, G., 2000) Moral development is…

secret lover’s wife. These accused citizens were given unfair trials, and many of them were hanged without questioning. David Calvert is a man who is believed to be Jon Venables, the murderer of two-year-old James Bulger when in fact, he is not. This belief arose when, eight years after the murder, Venables got a new identity. Angered people had no idea where Venables was or what his new name was. Since Calvert and looks similar and is around the same age as Venables, he was a reasonable…

The Bulger Brothers Boston, Massachusetts the home of the divergent including the contrastive James Whitey Bulger and William M. Bulger who are two brothers with extreme differences. The two brothers grew up together but struck up different lives all within the same community and city. One a criminal and the other a politician, but both became very successful and lived separate paths with similar upbringings. The Bulger brothers, James Whitey Bulger also know as Whitey and William M. Bulger…

James “Whitey” Bulger could just be considered another troubled soul caught up in the wrong things, but he is one of America's most notorious and ruthless mob bosses. Hailing from South Boston, Whitey entered a lifetime of crime a young age and had become a prominent figure in Boston's organized crime scene by the late 1970s. From 1975 to 1990, he served as an informant, tipping off the police and giving information about the Patriarca Crime Family while building his own crime network. After…

family that no one would expect to act out in such violent ways, yet sometimes these monsters are kids themselves, like in the case of James Bulger’s murder. Jon Venable and Robert Thompson are murders just like Victor’s monster; they all had bad upbringings, but this does not excuse their actions, though it also hold their caretakers accountable. James Bulger was a two-year old who was abducted and killed by the two ten-year boys Jon and Robert. It’s extremely difficult to believe that mere…

for anyone but their set. The set is the gang they are afiliated with. They don't even care if you’re their own family. If their gang members feel as if you are a threat to them and their mindset, then they will either severely injure you or even murder you. Gangs all originated in the 1920s. They came to be because of the 18th amendment that band all alcohol. This was during the prohibition era. This was also known as the great depression. They were not territorial rather they were loose…

‘The Criminal Law frequently results in unjust treatment of individuals and groups within society, which will not be solved by changing specific Laws.’ Critically discuss this statement in relation to the Criminal Law, using examples. Law can be metaphorically defined as a body of authority and rules which is archaic, bias and irrational. The Law exercises power and, “resists and disqualifies alternative accounts of social reality”. Smart, C. (1989:4) Arguably in order to criminalise…