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cultural and environmental factors. This associates with the “nature vs. nuture” argument, as I will be exploring and comparing sociologist views on whether biology has more of an influence on gender or sociology. From a sociologist’s point of view, sex is referred to the biological approach and status for instance, a child will be indentified as boy or girl at birth due their genitals, for examples females have vaginas and males have penises. On the other hand, some sociologist may refer…

Inequality for All Look out the window across the street new neighbors are moving in. The females are carrying the boxes in while males are carrying furniture. This is a normal occurrence with nuclear families. Females are socially viewed as the weaker gender. Males have to be strong. These ideals are what drive the chance of double standards. Double standards between genders have almost become a social normality, but must end because they impede equality in social issues, in the military, and…

than two years later which was two months before Aileen was born. Aileen never got to meet her father who was incarcerated at the time of her birth. Mr. Pittman was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was later convicted of raping a seven year old girl (sex crimes with children) which resulted in him hanging himself in prison. To make matters even worse Aileen’s birth mother abandoned her children when Aileen was only four years old leaving their maternal grandparents Lauri and Britta Wuornos to…

Serial Killers are not an anomaly in history, they have existed as far back in history as B.C.E. their charming personalities and intelligence helped prevent detection and make significant stains in history, and the lack of evidence of actual disappearances or sudden deaths of people. In the book “Inside the Mind of Serial Killers: Why they Kill” by Katherine Ramsland states one of the first serial murders in history ever recorded was in 54 A.D., Locusta a female poisoner hired to put Nero on…

A 1997 report, “Validity, Utility, and Ethics of Profiling for Serial Violent and Sexual Offenders,” shows that the FBI also made this case nearly two decades ago, reporting success rates “in excess of 80 percent” (Wilson, Lincoln, and Kocsis, 1997). However, the FBI’s claims are inflated. In reality, Pinizzotto’s 1984 study shows that, out of 192 offender profile requests, only 46 percent were found useful to the investigation. Further more, profiling only aided in identifying…

leave behind, tells law enforcement a lot about their distinct personality. For example: crime scenes that are disorganized with evidence left behind may mean that they’re psychotic and unintelligent while organized scenes point to a more intelligent offender who has carefully plotted his attacks and taken care of evidence. Knowing background information may seem like a secondary priority but in cases where the suspect left little to no evidence, behavioral clues is vital for their…

race of their killer. “Among 53 (54.6 per cent) white female victims, 46 (47.4 per cent) were attacked by white males and 7 (7.2 per cent) by nonwhite males. Among 31 (32.0 per cent) black female victims, 22 (22.7 per cent) were attacked by black offenders and 9 (9.3 per cent) by white perpetrators. One Asian female (1.0 per cent) and 12 (12.4 per cent) white males were the victims of white serial killers.”(222). This shows that on average, the killer is the same race as their victims and that…

Profiling simply defines the use of information from the crime scene to describe the offender’s behaviour while committing the act of crime. (Criminal Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide, p. 6 to 7) Criminal profiling or offender profiling is one of the used techniques in identifying a criminal in several cases besides scouring for physical evidences like blood, murder weapons, and many more. It has already been used in various scenarios when it comes to solving cases pertaining…

Frank Miller's Sin City: The Hard Goodbye tells the story of Marv, a psychotic, disfigured, ex-military killer living in a decadent and corrupt city. Marv is framed for the murder of beautiful prostitute Goldie, and feeling a connection with her though they only shared one night together, Marv goes on a search for her killer. Marv is both hunter and hunted as he traces the murder up through Sin City to a corrupt cardinal and a cannibalistic serial killer preying on the city's prostitutes. Marv…

Criminal Psychology Introduction: Criminal psychology is the study of the intentions and behaviours of criminals. Criminologists apply psychology to crime in order for them to uncover the criminals reasoning for committing the crime. This is not a job that many people know about but I believe that it is a very important job so that the police and other agencies have information about what and who they are dealing with. I had a short limited amount of prior knowledge about this topic but from…