Giannerys Heredia Nature Vs Nurture

Giannerys Heredias
Giannerys Heredias

The psychological debate of nature vs. nurture is one that has been considered and contradicted for many years. This debate is so controversial because although it is fact that genetic makeup does play a major role in developing a person, the nurture and environment in which a person is brought up in is also an important factor.
The psychological debate of nature vs. nurture is one that has been considered and contradicted for many years. This debate is so controversial because although it is fact that genetic makeup does play a major role in developing a person, the nurture and environment in which a person is brought up in is also an important factor.
Nature VS, Nurture
Intor. To Psychology
Nature VS, Nurture
Intor. To Psychology

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Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born in the projects in Jersey City, New Jersey to Stanley and Anna Kuklinski in 1935. Stanley was a severely abusive alcoholic who beat his wife and children. Anna was also abusive to her children, sometimes beating them with broom handles. Richard Kuklinski, in his own words said “My mother was cancer she just destroys you, she broke a broom on me a couple of time.” His mother believed that raising with strong religious beliefs. Richard Kuklinski was raised Catholic and was even an altar boy in his church. As a child he witnessed the murder of his younger brother at the hand of his father by a brutal beating. His mother covers it up by testifying the he had fallen down a staircase. By the age of ten Kuklinski starred hurting animal. He was bullied as a kid and was not only getting beaten by his parents but also his peers. By age of 14 he committed his first murder. The abused had become the abuser. He said he felt bad at the beginning, because he did not intend to kill. But later he felt good because he was no longer getting abused. He noticed that good guys do finish last; and that if you really hurt somebody they will leave you alone. ”Is better to give then to receive a beating I mean” he said later in an interview. We could call this the beginning of his career as a killer, By the age of 20 he had killed over 20 people.
As he got older he got better at what he did.
Kuklinski got the name “The Ice Man” because of one of the many murders he committed. He was paid to kill a man but was told to hide the body. He kept the body in a freezer for about 2 years then took him out and left that body in woods. When the authorities found the body the coroner noticed that although it was hot day, the inside of the body was frozen. Richard had many ways of killing people. He even said he got some of his methods from cartons. He said “Tom and Jerry had really good ideas on how to torture and killed.” Richard was an expert in using cyanide (the same chemical used in gas chambers) to poison people. He would get it in liquid form and put it in their drink or merely dump it on them in a bar, where it would go through their pores and into their bloodstream, eventually killing them. His methods of disposing of bodies consisted of putting them in cars that were crushed, sides of roads, park benches, steel drums, and body’s water. Over the course of 37 years, Kuklinski (a.k.a. The Ice Man), ended the lives of several hundred people usually premeditated hits ordered by many of the East Coast crime families. Sometimes through spontaneous stranger killings resulted when personal conflicts revealed a dreadfully bad temper. He was the number one problem solver for organized crime. He became so great at what he did that he was the number one guy. He was respected in his environment as a paid killer. Kuklinski was
paid from $10,000 up to $100,000 for his services. He was clean and reliable, and in his business that is the best quality. After a few years he became a worldwide contractor going all the way to Germany. Miami was also a place where he did many Jobs.
His wife and children had no idea of his real occupation and to outsiders they seemed like a perfect family. He hated traveling and returned as soon as he could to be with his family as much as possible. He made sure that his family was never given the same horrible experiences that he had endured during his own childhood. He was fascinated by the loving environment he experienced with his family since he had never known such love before. Unbelievably, his family found out about his criminal life when he testified in court. He was finally caught in that mid-1986 when he was in his mid-50s. That is when authorities really got to know how bad, ruthless and cruel this human being was. Over his lifetime, he claimed to have killed over two hundred people. He said that he feels no remorse for murdering people, but probably wouldn't do it if he could live life over again. He says that he doesn't think about his actions because they do bother him if he thinks about them enough. He regrets being a hit man since he now feels that he could have done something better. When he was interviewed in 1991 for a documentary, he showed little emotion, except when asked about the impact on his family, at which point he began tearing up. Kuklinski died at age 70 at 1:20 a.m. on March 5, 2006. He was in a secure wing at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey at the time, although the timing of his death was labeled suspicious. Till this day his death is consider a mob related death.
The question of whether or not man is predetermined at birth to lead a life of crime is a question that has been debated for decades.
Are serial killers born with the lust for murder, or are their desires developed through years of abuse and torment? Many believe it is impossible for an innocent child to be born with the capability to commit a horrible act such as murder. But at the same time, can corrupted society hurt or impact so much as to turn an innocent child into a homicidal maniac? I believe that Kuklinski became a great serial killer or human predator, as so professional have referred to him, killing more than 200 people before he was ever looked at as a person of interest. It safe to say the Anna and Stanly kuklinski were the most awful parent, especially for a child with a learning and behavior disability. Bad parenting and terrible interaction with other kids and adults led him in this horrific path. Contribution to his life were the deficiency of love, positive attention and shortage of minimal respect, and having to grown up in an area [Jersey City, New Jersey] that was saturated with crime. It was easy for him to see it, know it, and get caught up in it. Richard did not have a chance. He was abused at home. He learned to murder and get away when his father killed his brother. He learned that it is better to abuse then to get abused at home and when he took to the street thing got worse. I believe it was a combination of both nature and nurture. We could
only speculate of what he could have become. But to me he became a diabolic ruthless, cold-blooded killer with no remorse or shame. His environment and disabilities and parents were all problematic.

Works Cited 1. Philip Carlos's. The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
(Published in July of 2006, 402 pages) 2. Profile of The Iceman - Richard Kuklinski crime.about.com › ... › Historical Crimes › Gangsters and The Mob 3. Richard Kuklinski - Mafia Wiki mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Kuklinski 4. Richard Kuklinski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kuklinski 5. Scientific Fraud in the Nature Versus Nurture Debate | Psychology . www.psychologytoday.com/blog/matter-personality/201203/... 6. The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hit man - Top Documentary Films topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-iceman-confessions-of-a-mafia-hitman/ 7. "The Most Famous and Well Respected Way of Making Money." http://www.123HelpMe.com/view.asp?id=161107 “