Criminology is the scientific study of the causes and prevention of crimes. Criminology also uses a vast amount of theories to explain peoples’ actions, mental state, and their drive for committing crimes. Some crimes have monetary benefits, while other crime are committed in revenge or in spite of another, which would be called crimes of passion. Because it can be sometime difficult to understand why certain crime are committed, the only thing we can do is use theories to better decipher thoughts, morals, and reasons behind committing crimes. Everyone is unique in his or her own way. Therefore, to ask the question, “ why someone committed that crime?” is a difficult question to answer. Biological, genetics, and learned behaviors are all factors that contribute to one’s state of mind. So, what would cause a ex-police officer, United States Navy veteran, and college graduate to become so mentally distraught, that he would become a mass murder against is former collogues and their families? When first hearing about Christopher Dorner you almost began to feel empathy for his actions. Dorner stated in his manifesto, that he was unfairly fired, which sparked his rage against the LAPD. Dorners killing spree led to the death of three incent victims. Because of Dorner’s past history of being a law-abiding citizen, it can be assumed that the reasons for this outrage was based upon some psychological problem. As stress and anger began to build up Dorner leading to bad choices. One theory to explain Dorner’s decisions is genera strain theory (Agnew, 1994). General strain theory states that as certain goals are blocked we begin to feel stressed, resulting in crime. Therefore, as Dorner’s goals in his career became repeatedly blocked, Dorner... ... middle of paper ... ...violent way. While we will never know the true reasons behind Christopher Dorner’s plot and plans, we can use different theories to better understand why he committed such a terrible crime. Maybe the LAPD is a corrupt agency and maybe prior to the killings Dorner was innocent. We will honestly never know the truth, but one thing that we do know is Christopher Dorner was a stressed individual who had blocked goals. Because of the attributes that Dorner possessed he was more dangerous and keen than the average person. Christopher Dorner was also an individual who possessed very low self-control. During stressful situations most individuals can handle their stress in civil ways such as crying, slight irritation, or depressions. Dorner, instead could not control himself in a civil manner, and because of that went from being a law-abiding police officer to a killer.
...les and what they were actually going through was true. I could never imagine a mentality of a police chief being this way. It is an absolute horrific way of policing, and goes against anything to what the current era of community policing stands for. Also, what I don’t understand is how not one police officer took a stand against the police chief, and how this type of policing was never reported and deemed as acceptable behavior. The reason I also chose to include the L.A. riots is because it displays a side of the story many people simply do not discuss. The impression that I received is the rioting is deemed as justifiable. Both incidents are classic examples of how a lack of proper ethics and leadership can lead to such tragic incidents. What is even sadder is in between all this innocent people were affected, such as Rodney King, the businesses, and 53 deaths.
In Washington D. C. 2002, the city was terrorized by a serial killer. His name was John Allen Muhammad with his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo. This disturbance went on for three weeks in September to October. Why did these two serial killers decide to kill people? That has been the question people have been asking for years now.
The article states that there was no motive for Dalton to commit the crime, but to have an idea as to why he would have committed these crimes, the sociological imagination can be used to give perspective. The crime committed was in Kalamazoo, Michigan which is very close to the cities Chicago and Detroit where high crime rates are found in this state. This could have affected Dalton due to where he lives and the type of crimes he was exposed to on the news or in the neighborhood. Dalton could have experience violence first hand as a child
Some of this aggression and violence can be traced back to Rampart. Rampart was started in the 70’s to confront some of the gang violence that was ravaging the North West side of LA. Chief Gates instituted the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums or CRASH anti-gang program. These officers were under little supervision, were the roughest and most aggressive officers that LAPD had, and seemed to think that they were above the law. It is well known that a major cause of corruption in these specialty units is lack of supervision.
McVeigh had a complete lack of appreciation for human life. In his attack he not only killed 168 people, but 19 of those killed were infants and toddlers. The attack was carried out and created because Timothy McVeigh thought that the government was going to repeal the second amendment. McVeigh’s logic came from witnessing the siege on the Branch Davidians’ compound, witch he viewed as illegal. The attack on the federal building caused so much uneasiness that everyone knew about him, as it was the biggest
Murder is always a tragic crime, but even more so, when it has been committed by a police officer, who made an oath to uphold the law and protect the community. This was exactly the case during the early hours of the morning on June 5th 2010, when off-duty Baltimore police officer, Gahiji Tshamba shot an unarmed, Tyrone Brown, a former marine, repeatedly over an altercation outside of a local bar. The incident occurred outside of a bar in Mount Vernon, where the victim, Brown, touched Tshamba’s female companion inappropriately. The situation quickly escalated, but Brown tried to apologize and he had his hands up, when Tshamba fired thirteen shots, hitting Brown twelve times. Both parties involved had been drinking alcohol, and Tshamba had
“I think the motive of getting even with his neighbors and when it went that far — he just went on a rampage.”
As racial unrest continues, the barbaric behavior of law enforcement officers, long feared by civil rights leaders is now a reality. Thus, guns have become instruments of death and devastation, in cities across the U.S. Case in point: The March 18 murder of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old Black man shot by Sacramento police officers in his grandparents’ backyard.
Recently, a six-year-old by the name of Jeremy Mardis died. Though he didn’t just die of “natural causes”, he was shot and killed. By police officers. The shooting took place in Marksville, Louisiana, a small town with the population of only about 5,500, on a Tuesday night. Many are debating against this and trying to figure out why they did this and what happened to make them to this act of crime.
The other motivation that he had was profit because basically he had nothing else better to do besides go out and make crimes to get money like robbing a bank so he could get money. The final thoughts that have been made for this case if I had to pick would be First Degree Murder and First Degree Murder is basically when an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated meaning that if it was committed after planning or “lying in wait” for the victim. The reason for my picking of first degree murder is because Charles Arthur Floyd and the other people that was a part of this crime they planned it out before they with through with the crime. The crime that they planned to make was called the “Kansas City Massacre” they came up with a plan to go out and do this crime but it never mentioned their technique of how they went out and killed those victims that was mentioned in the previous pages. At the end of the trail for the crime “Kansas City Massacre” four men was found guilty but Charles Arthur Floyd was in a car accident and escaped. When Charles escaped two days later the police shot Pretty boy Floyd and killed him on October 22,
“The chief of police got my brother killed. He don’t care. He shows no emotion at all.” – Stevante Clark. On the evening of March 18th 2018 in Sacramento, California, a 22 year-old unarmed African American man Stephon Clark, who was a loving father of two sons was shot and killed in his own backyard by two Sacramento Police officers, one black and one white. Which reignited the national debate on race and policing in the United States.
He had double standards. He hated the cop just because he was a cop. He didn't recognize him as a real person. Mr. Pink and Mr. White confirm this at the warehouse when they discuss him shooting REAL people, which cops are not. They say he just went crazy. They seemed to fear his craziness. His calm facade was a cover for the monstrous things he did to people.
The NYPD chief of Manhattan South Detectives William Aubry said that they are looking into the suspect’s state of mind and psychological history in an attempt to determine the suspect’s motive. Rojas says that he had spoken to a mental health counselor at a local veteran’s center days before the tragedy. When he didn’t receive a callback, he reacted by plowing down pedestrians with his car in one of the busiest streets in the
The family of Michael Brown wanted justice for their son in which they felt was an unjust shooting. His mother was quoted expressing mistrust towards the police, "You 're not God. You don 't decide when you 're going to take somebody from here.” (McLaughlin, E. C. (2014, August 15) The family was obviously hurt by the shooting and wanted justice and support. The community began protesting the shooting and Officer Darren Wilson. Chaos broke out in Ferguson and a State of Emergency was issued. The community felt that the shooting was unjust and did not trust police officers. The community response to the shooting often attracted attention and made many political statements. Darren Wilson’s family were interested in maintaining his innocence. They hoped that the investigation would prove to the world that Wilson acted out of self-defense and did not violate Brown’s rights. The Criminal Justice system’s interests all hoped to create reforms and eliminate racism in police departments. On the local level many had to maintain safety in the community and assure proper police procedures. The state had to step into issue curfews and State of Emergencies to keep the state safe despite protests and riots as well as make sure Darren Wilson did not violate any laws of the state of Missouri. The state also hoped to create reforms to better race relations. On the federal level was the investigation which hoped to find out if the
Summarizing Susan Cooper Eastman’s article, Michael Dunn, a 47 white male shot 17 year old Jordan Davis, a black teen, over a dispute over Davis’ loud music. Jordan Davis was with three other teenagers when they parked in a Jacksonville parking lot next to Dunn. Dunn claims he shot Davis because he panicked when the dispute escalated and he saw what looked like a barrel of a gun through the back window as Davis began to get out of his car. Police say that the teen’s car was unarmed. Assistant State Attorney Erin Wolfson believes that Dunn overreacted because of the way that Davis was speaking to him and not listening to his orders to turn his rap music down. Wolfson quoted a witness who heard Dunn state “You are not going to talk to me that way” as the dispute began to get heated. Defense attorneys believe that Dunn acted in self-defense and that it is reasonable that he used deadly force. Medical evidence shows that Davis died inside his vehicl...