Category: Criminals in Society

When people commit a criminal offense, many don’t know the never-ending implications of that offense. Once people become offenders, it seems impossible to get rid of that label. After release, ex-offenders have many challenges ahead. Unfortunately, once someone has a criminal record, they have to live with the burden of expectations associated with it (Quinn,…

Norman Bates was only a boy when his mother passed away. After her death, he spent most of his time running the Bates Motel. What he did in his free time is what deviates from the norm. Norman took his mother from her grave and preserved her, keep her in the basement, and dressed her.…

Witness testimony: 4 people suggested Ted Bundys name to the police after hearing a description of the suspect for the murders. This included his girlfriend Elizabeth Kloepfer who called the police twice with concern about Bundy, also a close friend of his, a co-worker, and an old psychology professor from university. This was the primary…

Introduction Theodor Robert Bundy (born Theodor Robert Conwell) is one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. However, Bundy was not like your ordinary serial killer, he was a very intelligent, good-looking man who was a master of manipulation. Bundy was able to take advantage of his intelligence and good looks to lure…

If you dont stop screaming, Ill blow your brains out. A quote that victim Carol DaRonch would later recall to police after escaping a kidnapping by a notorious serial killer named Ted Bundy. Over his 42-year life, Theodore Robert Bundy would have many names and wear many masks. His mother thought that he was the…

Ted Bundy, one of Americas most infamous serial killers was known to abduct women then sexually assault and then murder them afterwards. People often wonder how a guy like him a well-looking, law student could ever commit such crimes. And the fact that such a guy with his background would do such things makes us…

The crimes committed by offenders are relative to their psychological and social behavior. It has been observed through the study conducted by Samenow, (2014) that a number of criminals do not have a stable mental state. Correspondingly, the case of Ted Bundy is similar to psychotic serial, who do not need any particular reason or…

Criminals tend to view all information before committing a crime. Therefore, because they believe that the risk does not outweigh the rewards of said crime, they go through with it. In criminology, we call this Rational Choice Theory. The view that criminality is a product of abnormal biological or psychological traits, is known as Trait…

Activity 1: Timeline 1. Normal Day for the Clutter Family and the Killers  Nov 14, 1959 Truman Capote doesnt waste anytime revealing the details of the story, giving it away by saying, At the time, not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard themfour shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. Everything was…

Truman Capote had a very good reputation, as he was an established actor, screenwriter, novelist, and various other titles. This reputation gave him the publicity and credibility needed to make a book that the general public would actually care about. In Cold Blood is based on the actual story of the Clutter family murders. Upon…