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Biological, sociological and psychological explanations of criminal behaviour
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Should Carmen Machado get treatment for her 3 year old son. Her son has down syndrome and doesn’t remember a lot of things. She is confused and doubts herself because she regrets not getting an abortion so her son will not suffer the pain. She doesn’t know if the treatment will cure her son from the disease. A murder suspect is held on trial warren lee hill is on death row. He claims that he is mentally retarded. He tested of a I.Q of 70 but the court claims it as 72. George is justified because he knew that Lennie wanted to pet and take care of the rabbits and George knew that it wouldn’t happen so he did it for him. Should mental retardation be the blame for murders and getting in legal trouble. Warren was not justified because he knew how
In class we discussed that a mass murderer is classified as a person who had four or more victims, there is one or few offenders, the killings are done in one period, and in one location, and lastly there is “no cooling off period.” Adam Lanza is very peculiar he was diagnosed with asperger, and sensory integration disorder in a later stages of life. It didn’t seem as if the mother did the correct steps and seeked help, will she did but they only lasted for a short period of time. If Adam would have been in the hands of professionals then I believe he would have had a different outcome. I also believe that sheltering Adam and indulging him to be in a special needs class was wrong. Adam should have been with the other kids, trying to socialize. Yes, he doesn’t like when people touch him and doesn’t like being with large crowds, but there are classes with low percentage of kids in them and having exposure to other people like he did in the technology club could of helped him develop some social skills, and make at least a friend, so he didn’t feel lonely. Nancy Lanza wasn’t at fault, the only thing she did wrong in my opinion was introducing Adam and Ryan to guns and teaching them how to shoot. They are small children, adn with Adam having access to violent video games and being socially awkward and wit his diagnosis it was relevant for him to become a delinquent. We can’t always shelter our kids, but by monitoring their use of of
right or wrong for Derek to be hung. Also it is very biased as Peter
Question 1: a) Donna Gamble is an Aboriginal woman who lives in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a former ward of the state and has spent a significant part of her youth inside juvenile correction centres. At a young age she started using drugs and alcohol as a form of escape and resorted to prostitution as a means of sustaining her habits. Donna has six children, all with the exception of the youngest two who were placed in the custody of child services. Donna has quit working as a prostitute and is currently on the road to recovery from years of addiction and abuse.
Read the posted case study about Benita Vasquez and discuss the following questions: 1. What are the clinical causes of death in the story? a. Senora Vasquez died because of uncontrolled diabetes, Infected wound and diffusing kidneys. With not well-controlled diabetes and acquiring an infected burn wound makes it harder for the patient to get treatment. Thus with the condition of the patient and her current social status, she is unable to afford the treatment and medications needed to alleviate her suffering.
Caracterra is a white male around the age of 30 years-old. During his childhood, around the ages of 13-15, he had three close friends that he considers a huge part of childhood. He grew up in Manhattan in a community called Hell’s Kitchen. His parents are still together but displayed domestic violence in the home. Loyalty means everything to him, he would do whatever he can for his friends or family. At this moment, Caracterra currently resides in Hell’s Kitchen alone and struggles with letting go of his past childhood.
The republic of Colombia has been fighting an internal war for over 50 years. On April 9th 1948, 1:00P.M. The leader of the Liberal Party Jorger Eliecer Gaitan walked out of his office in the downtown area, got shot 3 times and died once he got to the hospital. This day went down in Colombian history as the Bogotazo. Gaitan was a moderate socialist congressman that gave a voice to the middle and lower classes in Colombia. He gave hope to those that had nothing under the right wing elitist government. In 1948 after his death, the era of the Violencia started. A civil war between the Colombian communist party and the farmers against the right wing military conservative government due to the high inflation and unfair assistance to those that
When horrific crimes occur in large cities, many of them can be chalked up to gang violence or to the larger population of that specific city. But when horrific crimes happen in small cities like Lincoln, Nebraska, people begin to ask questions like who did this and why. In 1958, a nineteen year old man named Charles Starkweather put the entire state of Nebraska and possibly the entire nation in a state of terror. With his murder spree taking only three days, Starkweather had collected a body count of ten bodies, including two teenagers and a young child. Understanding Starkweather’s past and state of mind begins to answer the second question of why.
Kathleen Weiand shot and killed her husband Todd. At trial, Kathleen’s defense was BWS; because of Todd’s abuse, she had no choice but to kill him, fearing that if she did not, he would eventually kill her. Defense expert Dr. Len...
Although race may be a tragic decision in some people’s decision to kill somebody, Cynthia does no justice on providing that evidence or swaying individuals to her cause. Whether it be the poor lack of evidence thrust upon the reader, her clearly biased opinions, or simply her poor claims with the Zimmerman and Dunn cases it felt as so much went unjustified. Such a noble cause to stand for with the right technique and the right mindset. However, to try to scare citizens into being afraid to protect themselves out of fear of prosecution or persecuted as a racist is not the way to do that. It is in this sense that Cynthia’s argument falls short in convincing the reader to see her point of view.
Imagine that you could be sent to jail for life or even killed for something that you did not do. This is what could happen to a fourteen year old boy, TJ Avery. TJ should not be charged with murder for apparently killing Jim Lee Barnett. While yes, TJ was there in Mr. Barnett’s store at the time of his death and was helping to steal stuff from the store, TJ did not kill Mr. Barnett. Tj should not be charged with murder because as I already mentioned, he is a fourteen year old boy that’s parents didn’t raise him correctly. TJ also is subject to racial prejudice, as most black people are.
Institutional racism is racism that is shown through government organizations and political institutions. In a report done by David Baldus in 1998, he discovered that when it comes to the death penalty, blacks are more likely sentenced to death than whites, and those who kill whites are more likely to be given the death penalty than the killing of blacks (Touré). In several cases and studies, there is a substantial amount of racial bias in the criminal justice system. In fact, the 1978 McClesky conviction has proven to support Baldus’s study in 1998. Warren McClesky, an African American male, was found guilty of killing a Georgia police officer. The legal team who represented McClesky exposed a study that showed how biased racial inequality is in the death penalty, but the court contended the argument because “disparities in sentencing are an inevitable part of our criminal justice system” (Touré). Furthermore, race has always been a serious matter in the Supreme Court and other government administrations, but they fail to recognize the
Not everyone who commits a crime is a criminal. A.B. Butler did not do what the woman
Brannan's argument that his death sentence was unconstitutional because it is unconstitutional to execute persons who have severe mental illness. The court cited Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551 (2005), which held the execution of juvenile offenders as unconstitutional and Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), which held the execution of mentally retarded offenders as unconstitutional, when it noted that unlike those cases, there was no consensus in the United States or Georgia that illustrates that evolving standards of decency necessitate any constitutional ban on executing all persons with mental illness (Franklin Bordenave). People with mental illness mainly uses the violence of guns than anything else. Harvard once said that although a subset of people with psychiatric disorders commit assaults and violent crimes, findings have been inconsistent about how much mental illness contributes to this behavior. Harvard also said that highly publicized acts of violence by people with mental illness affect more than public perception. Clinicians are under pressure to assess their patients for potential to act in a violent way. Although it is possible to make a general assessment of relative risk, it is impossible to predict an individual, specific act of violence, given that such acts tend to occur when the perpetrator is highly emotional. Robert once said “In prehistoric time’s man’s
On August 20th, 1989 Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents inside their Beverly Hills home with fifteen shot gun blasts after years of alleged “sexual, psychological, and corporal abuse” (Berns 25). According to the author of “Murder as Therapy”, “The defense has done a marvelous job of assisting the brothers in playing up their victim roles” (Goldman 1). Because there was so much evidence piled up against the brothers, the defense team was forced to play to the jurors’ emotions if they wanted a chance at an acquittal. Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich was forced to concede that “Jose and Kitty obviously had terrific flaws-most people do in the course of reminding jurors that the case was about murder, not child abuse” (Adler 103). Bozanich “cast the details of abuse as cool, calculated lies” (Smolowe 48)...
You can blame Dodd’s murders on the court systems failures, but we need to remember, although the justice system failed to keep Dodd from killing, Dodd ultimately committed those crimes against the innocent and not the justice system.