I began my research with a domestic murder mindset. During my research I found the domestic cases a lot more appealing than murders that resulted from riots or race. For class last week, we read “I loved Joe, but I had to Shoot Him” which definitely confirmed my interest in the topic. During class, however, we discussed how the motive of a wife murdering her husband was different based on their race. This thought led me to want to study a compare and contrast of a woman's race and murder motive. Then, I thought about returning to the case of “1912 Husband Set on Fire,” but found that “1889: Murder- Suicide” was the better choice.
I would like to research different domestic murders that resulted in the murderer killing themselves or attempting
to kill themselves. The case is split into three different articles by different professors. The website states that “there are similarities between the historical cases involving homicide- suicide in circumstances of intimate partner homicide, and the cases of domestic violence in today’s society.” Profession Michelle Oberman’s compares cases where mothers kill their children and in similar cases today. I think it would be interesting to see the motives of the women who killed their children in the past versus present, if race played a part in the murderers, or if domestic abuse led a mother to this. This research would be interesting because, post-partum depression was undiagnosed at the time, could that have played a part in these murders? Did women just not feel the connection they were supposed to feel and this led to a child’s murder? Also, it would be interesting to see if race had anything to do with these murders, or if these women murdered their children to free themselves… A mother murdering her children is almost unheard of today and the thought that this was a regular murder during this time in Chicago is alarming and all anyone wants to know is, “What was their motive?”
Four black sharecroppers (Roger Malcom, Dorothy Malcom, George Dorsey and Mae Murray Dorsey) are brutally murdered by a group of white people. The murders attracted national attention, but the community was not willing to get involved. The community was not fazed by these brutal murders but, by the fact that this incident got national attention. They were even more astounded that the rest of the nation even cared. In this book Laura Wexler shows just how deep racism goes. After reading the book I discovered that Fire in a Canebrake has three major themes involving racism. The first is that racism obstructs progression. The second is history repeats itself. The last theme is that racism can obscure the truth. This lynching, in particular, marks a turning point in the history of race relations and the governments’ involvement in civil rights. In the end this case still remains unsolved. No concept of the
In my free time at work I used to listen to You-Tube documentaries on serial killers. I thought it was interesting and it passed the time. Looking back, I now notice that most of the serial killers were white males, middle class, and heterosexual. Without reading this article I probably would have never thought of the fact that most of the serial killers were in fact of that nature. This article just continues to prove that people can not judge people based on race, social status, or gender. There is more that goes on in a person’s brain then what they look like or how they might seem on the
These two men, both coming from different backgrounds, joined together and carried out a terrible choice that rendered consequences far worse than they imagined. Living under abuse, Perry Smith never obtained the necessary integrity to be able to pause and consider how his actions might affect other people. He matured into a man who acts before he thinks, all due to the suffering he endured as a child. Exposed to a violent father who did not instill basic teachings of life, Smith knew nothing but anger and misconduct as a means of responding to the world. He knew no other life. Without exposure to proper behavior or responsible conduct, he turned into a monster capable of killing an entire family without a blink of remorse. In the heat of the moment, Perry Smith slaughtered the Clutter family and barely stopped to take a breath. What could drive a man to do this in such cold blood? The answer lies within his upbringing, and how his childhood experiences shaped him to become the murderer of a small family in Holcomb, Kansas. ¨The hypothesis of unconscious motivation explains why the murderers perceived innocuous and relatively unknown victims as provocative and thereby suitable targets for aggression.¨ (Capote 191). ¨But it is Dr. Statten´s contention that only the first murder matters psychologically, and that when
At first glance, the story “Barn burning” seems just to be about a tyrannical father and a son who is in the grips of that tyranny. I think Faulkner explores at least one important philosophical question in this story were he asks at what point should a person make a choice between what his parent(s) and / or family believes and his own values?
In 2012, there were an estimated 14,827 murders and non-negligent manslaughter crimes reported by all agencies in the United States according to the Uniform Crime Report at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter are defined “as the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another.” A 1.1 percent increase occurred from 2011 to 2012. But it should be noted, this is a 9.9 percent drop from the figure for 2008 and a 10.3 percent decrease from the number of murders recorded in 2003. Of the murders that occurred in 2012, it is estimated that 43.6 percent were reported in the south, 21.0 percent were from the Midwest, 21.0 percent were accounted from the west, and 14.2 percent were from the northeast
Bowers, W, Pierce, G., and McDevitt, J.(1984), Legal Homicide: Death as Punishment in America, 1964-1982, 333
The books Stuart: A Life Backwards and Once in a House on Fire have many similarities both of the books are non-fiction and they share similar themes such as poverty and abuse which I have choose to look at closely with a focus on how these themes are narrated. The narration in the two books are completely different, Stuart: A Life Backwards has a third person narration which is done by Alexander Masters and all the memories are recalled by Stuart Shorter, while Once in a House on Fire is first person narration where Andrea Ashworth recalls her own memories of her life. However, there are differences between the two books for example the language used to tell the stories.
In 1989 there was an appalling(or shocking) case where a man and a woman had both been killed. The man had been shot in the back of the head, and in several other places, including the kneecap, the woman was shot in the leg, the arm several times and the kneecaps as well to make it seem as if it were an organized crime. Later the
242) due to the fact that females can kill without anyone being aware of their activities and therefore without anyone stopping them (Schurman, 2000, p. 13).Therefore, we should still have a considerable bulk of research directed toward these women in order for the criminal justice system to effectively catch these offenders, rehabilitate, and prevent increasing numbers of female serial killers. So why has there been a lack of research on female serial killers when there has been enough of them throughout history to justify inquiry and analysis? This is because woman’s tactics and victim choices often effectively conceal their crime to look like natural or accidental death, while society is simultaneously mislead to think women cannot be serial killers because of culturally defined gender
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The topic I chose for my research paper is serial killers. More specifically, are serial killers born or made? I believe serial killers are made. A serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern. Most cases of serial killers are form those who were born in a domestic abuse situation. However, there are plenty of cases of serial killers who lived in a healthy, loving, and stable home.
Davies, K. (2008). The Murder Book: Examining Homicide. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.
Racism Review: Scholarship and activism toward racial justice. (2010). Race and the Death Penatly 2: Black defendants, White Victims . Retrieved from Racism Review: Scholarship and activism toward racial justice : http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2010/04/17/race-and-the-death-penalty-ii-black-defendants-white-victims/
Throughout recorded history, fires have been known to cause great loss of life, property, and knowledge. The Great Fire of London was easily one of the worst fires mankind has ever seen causing large scale destruction and terror. Samuel Pepys described the fire as “A most malicious bloody flame, as one entire arch of fire of above a mile long… the churches, houses and all on fire and flaming at once, and a horrid noise the flames made.” (Britain Express 1).
Most are committed by man and are in the community of domestic violence cases. It could be the case of a husband who kills his wife, or girlfriend or lover. Suicides in the other hand are a smaller fraction of homicides over all. In any case they differ in signifficant ways from domestic crimes. In such cases depresion seams to play a signifficant role, 17 out of 18 perpetrators meat the diagnostic for a major depresion or some form of mental illnes. Some studies have shown that a mojority of killers abused alchohol or drugs. This murders can be saied that most of the times are impulsive, and they are commited in a stage of rage or jealousy mostly enable by the presence of a fire arm close by. In contrast to this massmurders plan thei crimes carfully they wait for the right oportunity to straik or act. In wich case they involbe a lot of inocent pople in their