Voyeurism

During the previous years, civil commitment pertaining to high-risk sex offenders has been a question of concern. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Kansas v. Hendricks (1997), the civil commitment (correspondingly referred to as civil management) of dangerous sex offenders after their criminal punishment developed into all-purpose implemented proposal in the United States. The current study within the article, Predictors of the sex offender civil commitment trial outcomes in New York,…

Children being sexually abused isn't an uncommon event to happen. There are many people who are unaware of how often children are sexually abused and there are some who understand the overwhelming effect of sexual abuse. According to Victimsofcrime.org one in five girls and one in twenty boys have been a victim of child sexual abuse. Additionally, these children can have many problems in their lives and the child sex offender will not always get the punishment they deserve. Laws and punishments…

Throughout the years, people in the workforce are making mistakes in their respectful jobs and it’s affecting their work business overall. With these mistakes keep piling up, workers will feel guilty towards themselves for developing bad habits and they are having a hard time changing it. There have been high rates of death in employees and in consumers and this can result in a bad reputation for businesses. People that are working for a long period of time are faced with these kinds of…

Every form of media tries to appeal to a large audience. The more people that watch a program determine the success of a movie or TV show. The L Word and Saving Face are two lesbian stories released within a year of each other, yet the effort of the two stories to appeal to various audiences was vastly different. Premiering on Showtime in 2004, The L Word focusses on a group of lesbians and their daily lives and drama. It was the successful TV series that featured lesbian characters and…

Wes Anderson and Tim Burton are both complex and unique characters in the filmmaking industry, with their own unmistakeable signatures. Although both of their technical approaches to filmmaking differ greatly, on a theoretical level they appear to agree on a number of aspects. One aspect of filmmaking that both directors seem to concur on is that films are composed in almost equal parts by all of the characters and creators involved in the production process, a process that includes the film's…

In a business and culture that is dominated by males, the narcocorrido, “La Reina Del Sur” by Los Tigres Del Norte, is considered an anthem towards the empowerment of females among the narcoculture. A narcocorrido is a song-style under the regional Mexican music genre that narrates a story related to the drug business (Beezley 11). In a music industry that tends to narrate and honor men’s experiences, Los Tigres Del Norte sing a narcocorrido to celebrate a different character: Teresa Mendoza, a…

America, the land of the free and home of the brave. In the 1920s America was the land of the liberal-minded urbanites and home of the traditional fundamentalists, divided by the stronghold call morals. The fundamentalists were people who mostly lived in the rural areas of America. These fundamentalists believed the city was a trick from the devil, the streets are littered with drunks and people who would mongrelize the American race. They wanted the pure white protestant race to be the only…

When the phrase “serial killer” is brought up, many names come to mind. Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, the list goes on. Sadly, serial killers are a common thing, but the question is posed what creates a serial killer? Is it their past, their upbringing, or is it something genetic? There are many genetic disorders that attribute to violent and aggressive behavior, many of which happen to be hereditary. A great amount of serial killers also has had psychological disorders and…

From “sophisticated, tasteful suspense”—to “a graphic and bizarre shocker”, Psycho goes to darker places than the voyeurism of Rear Window and the persistent themes of guilt and danger (Lehman and Luhr, 2008; 82). Now the danger is more biological, more immediate, with a pollution of 1950’s America ideologies (CITE). Lehman and Luhr identify three periods in an auteur’s…

The Club Guy The Club Guy is a very fun man to be around. He knows how to party and loves to dance. Many players who just want to have sex for the night wouldn’t be caught dead on the dance floor. They despise The Club Guy thinking he’s on So You Think you Can Dance? The Player is too busy trolling the bar looking for potential drunk women to spit at. Sometimes they stand up leaning up against the wall talking with girls while watching the fools dance like they’re on Soul Train. Now, there are…