Murder of James Bulger

boy being tortured. Lindemann calls this stage ‘preoccupation with the image of the deceased’. As well as the thoughts of him lingering in my mind, I felt guilty that I was part of a society in which children had the audacity to commit coldblooded murder and feel nothing. According to Lindemann, this was the ‘guilt relating to the deceased or circumstances of the…

20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, both high school seniors, entered their school Columbine High dressed in matching trench coats and armed with two shotguns, one rifle, one semi-automatic weapon and a cache of explosives, with one intention, murder. Reportedly, the duos initial plan was to set off a propane tank which they had converted into a bomb, but when that plan failed the two went on a shooting spree. The pair walked around randomly choosing their victims; they killed over a…

The definition of evil is the “exercise of power” (“The Psychology of Evil”), according to psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In consonance with this definition, people execute an evil act “to intentionally harm people psychologically, to hurt people physically, to destroy people mortally, or ideas, and to commit crimes against humanity” (Zimbardo, “The Psychology of Evil”). Based on this, evil is committed with the intention to inflict harm on people and the environment. The incentive to perform…

matters who owns the news media as it is easily accessible to children, who tend to be more vulnerable as they are exploited to what is shown within the news media, especially on television and more recently, the internet. An example of this is the James Bulger case (1993) where violence was exploited to children through media at a young age which resulted in illegal and abnormal behaviour. This violent and aggressive nature is shown to be likely if children, especially boys, are exposed to the…

From the shooting of Edmund Powell on June 1991 to the fatal choke hold that killed Eric Garner on July 17, 2014, police brutality is not an unfamiliar topic to American citizens. It is one of the most contradicting human rights violations in the United States and has been around for decades. The immoderate use of violence in law enforcement by police officers is overwhelming, along with the number of “alleged” crimes by officers swept under the rug. New York City police officer Dennis…