The Magnitude Of The Crimes Of Homicide Case Study

The Magnitude of the Crime of Homicide

The consequence of the crime of homicide is an enormous impact that affect victims, victims’ families, and the offenders. No one is immune to the effects after a homicide has occurred, the victim’s life is lost, the family is left suffering the loss of a loved one, and the offender is left to deal with the consequences of his or her actions for the rest of their lives. Homicide can be classified as murder in the first or second degree, or as manslaughter. This paper will analyze the complexities about homicide investigations, and why serial killers kill so often in the United States.

Complexities of Homicide Investigations Complications that can happen in homicides investigations can be losing or destroying

Killers find various reasons to try to justify killing. In the Jeffrey Dahmer case, it is believed that he was conditioned as an adolescent accidentally to thoughts violence, control, and mutilations. Dahmer’s reason to kill was presumed to have a sexual partner, even though he hated killing and had to get intoxicated to dismember his victims. His fantasy was to have a compliant partner to control without any will power from the victim’s behalf. According to the documentary, Dahmer’s urges were so great he could not stop himself. In correlation to the documentary and Murder as a righteous slaughter, it seems Dahmer’s justification was his impulsivity to act his out his violent fantasies of being in control and having a submissive

The United States is the country that is affected the most by economic stratification, because of the disparity between people with high income and those with low income. Communities with low income people tend to have more criminality happening than a high income. Poverty along with other factors happens to stress individuals in those living conditions to the point where they see criminality as the only resort to try to change their lives. The next reason as to why serial killers kill the most in the U.S. is gun ownership. Gun ownership is a highly debated issue because of how easy it is for people to have access to assault weapons. As a result, numerous shootings have occurred, such as the recent Las Vegas shooting. Firearms are the most commonly used weapons in most homicides, “Firearms were used in 71.5 percent of the nation’s murders” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2016). Encounters with guns usually end in death. Last of all, subcultural differences are another reason why serial killers kill more in the U.S, it explains why crime occurs more in the south and the high rate of homicides among African Americans. According to the textbook the South seems to have homicides occur the most because white men have the mindset that backing down is weak and unmanly, therefore they resort to violence. Southerners appear to