television‚ and troops returning home from the Vietnam War. With all the changes evolving‚ the 70’s was also the start of the worst violent serial murders in America’s history with credit given to Dean Corll. You may know him as the infamous Candy Man but lets rewind a little bit-Dean Arnold Corll‚ born December 24‚ 1939 in a small town in Indiana‚ was an American serial killer who‚ with the help of two young accomplices‚ David Brooks and abducted Elmer Wayne Henley Jr- sodomized‚ tortured‚ and murdered a
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Why do Woman Kill? A Look at Female Serial Killers Michael Clouse Des Moines Area Community College There are endless documentations on male serial killers. However female serial killers are a little less common. Females are known to be nurtures and gentle by nature. There are nine classifications for females serial killers. Angel of Death An angel of death is a female serial killer that usually preys on the sick. She has a sense of playing God by controlling how well the person gets and
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While many theories have been established through the years‚ the Control Theory established and researched by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi in 1990 has inspired a large amount of research and proposed the most likely reason that people commit crimes. In addition to their initial theory‚ Harold Grasmick also presented another facet‚ the Self- Control Theory‚ claiming that people commit crimes simply because they lack the capacity to use self- control. These theories are both considered psychological
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Serial Killers: What Really Makes Them Tick Are serial murderers born with an instinct to kill‚ or is it something that forms over time? Sometimes it is one or the other‚ but it can also be a combination of both‚ and in most cases it is. These people are always and will forever be considered dangerous and a threat to mankind because it is not always easy to spot them. In order to understand the mind of a serial killer‚ as it related to Sleeping Beauty‚ it is necessary to examine how the mind of
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Travis Hirschi‚ an American control theorist had his own views and ideas on why a delinquent commits crimes. Being a classical‚ choice theorist‚ he generated two major versions of control theory. The first being his control theory of delinquency‚ and this theory was presented in ‘Causes of Delinquency’ (1969)‚ which had an interesting origination in the social disorganisation perspective‚ which I will go into more detail about. The othe major theory was the Self control theory of Delinquency‚ mainly presented
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Spree Killers and What Made Them Snap What is the difference between a spree killer and a serial killer? Well it has nothing to do with the amount of victims. A serial killer is defined as a person who murders three or more people with a cooling off period between each killing. A spree killer on the other hand is someone who kills two or more people with little or no cooling off period in-between. Spree killers‚ or mass murderers are among the scariest types of killers because most of the time
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Self-control Theory of Crime Evaluation Self-control Theory of Crime Evaluation Marilyn A. Vazquez CJA/540 Criminological Theories University of Phoenix Angela Williams October 24‚ 2011 Abstract Crime consists of behavior patterns‚ the environment‚ and the economy of the world. Researchers tend to use theories to answers questions concerning these behaviors. For example such questions involve why people commit crimes‚ what type of people commit crimes‚ and a host of other questions. The topic
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Society’s fascination on Serial Killers. Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs. The Silence of the Lambs started out as a novel written by Thomas Harris. It received positive acclaim from critics and fellow authors alike. In 1991 it was adapted into a film which was also quit popular‚ winning five Academy Awards. Many who read the book or watched the movie will have a difficult time forgetting the main antagonist Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill was the twisted serial killer who killed women for their
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. Self control theory explains that deviance is inherently attractive to everyone. It applies to both legal‚ illegal and self indulgent actions that are considered deviant in our society‚ for example ‚ robbery ‚ rape ‚using drugs ‚ smoking ‚ drinking and even being obese and being a potato couch .The main reason behind these crimes are low self control ‚ immediate and easy gratification and satisfying short term goals ( Goode‚ 2015). These college women wanted their body to be thin ‚ but they did
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There are several theories that try to correlate female involvement in crime to the degree of men. The contemporary interest note that delinquency is much lower than the rate of males however they note that females are starting to grow in involvement in serious delinquent acts. A few hypotheses are Masculinity Hypothesis‚ that according to the book is views that have biological and psychological traits similar to men’s. There is another hypothesis called the Chivalry Hypothesis‚ which I feel is more
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