Good morning all. Monday again.
Just was over at the Heather Elvis thread - just started following it on Friday - and two people have been charged with murder. What is it that people go around murdering others. I just don't get it.
BBM Ohhhhhhhhhh- a question. :cheerful: :wink: :floorlaugh:
I :sleuth: and found all this interesting stuff (if anyone's interested):
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Why do people kill?
A Typology of Violent Offenders
(.."describes many, if not most types of homicide and most acts of violence. It describes most of the killers and most of the violent individuals...")
-Chronically Aggressive Individuals
-The Over-Controlled Hostility Type
-The Hurt and Resentful
-The Traumatized
-The Obsessive
-The Paranoid
-The Insane
-The Just Plain Bad & Angry
http://everydaypsychology.com/2008/07/why-do-people-kill-typology-of-violent.html#.UwvhXvldVSB
(I think the Killer :jail: is The Just Plain Bad & Angry type:
"A combination of most of the above (except for insane): angry, hostile, jealous, resentful, impotent, and disturbed individuals, who are socially isolated, socially inadequate, and who feel worthless
May be seeking attention
May be seeking revenge")
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Important Theories in Criminology: Why People Commit Crime
Rational choice theory: People generally act in their self-interest and make decisions to commit crime after weighing the potential risks (including getting caught and punished) against the rewards.
Social disorganization theory: A persons physical and social environments are primarily responsible for the behavioral choices that person makes. In particular, a neighborhood that has fraying social structures is more likely to have high crime rates. Such a neighborhood may have poor schools, vacant and vandalized buildings, high unemployment, and a mix of commercial and residential property.
Strain theory: Most people have similar aspirations, but they dont all have the same opportunities or abilities. When people fail to achieve societys expectations through approved means such as hard work and delayed gratification, they may attempt to achieve success through crime.
Social learning theory: People develop motivation to commit crime and the skills to commit crime through the people they associate with.
Social control theory: Most people would commit crime if not for the controls that society places on individuals through institutions such as schools, workplaces, churches, and families.
Labeling theory: People in power decide what acts are crimes, and the act of labeling someone a criminal is what makes him a criminal. Once a person is labeled a criminal, society takes away his opportunities, which may ultimately lead to more criminal behavior.
Biology, genetics, and evolution: Poor diet, mental illness, bad brain chemistry, and even evolutionary rewards for aggressive criminal conduct have been proposed as explanations for crime.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/important-theories-in-criminology-why-people-commi.html
Murder Article: Why Men Murder
"Murder and the Map-
A man's chance of being murdered - or of murdering - varies greatly according to geography.
Murder and The Calendar-
During hot weather, as you might expect, more murders are committed... Police explain the warm-weather peak as resulting from anger induced by discomfort.
How They Do It-
..by far the largest number of murders are committed with four "standard' weapons: hand guns, cutting instruments, blunt instruments, and - surprisingly - bare hands. Hand guns are, of course commonly revolvers or automatics; cutting instruments range from razors to switchblade knives and cleavers. The blunt instrument is a tire iron, bat, poker...
Why They Do It-
"The reasons given for murder in a courtroom are probably seldom the real ones. The police, the prosecutor, even the court, elicit only the apparent causes. The murderer himself is the last person to ask for a motive. He wants only to save his neck, if necessary by distorting the truth...
F. Tennyson Jesse, in Murder and Its Motives, says the true murderer is a colossal egoist - he's sure he can kill and get away with it....
In The Mind of the Murderer, W. Lindesay Neustatter remarks, ". . . motive, without the whole background in which it is set, tells little of the criminal's psychology." He classifies murderers as the schizophrenic (with delusions of persecution), the hysteric, the mental defective, the paranoiac (victim of a systemized delusional insanity), the epileptic (with epileptic automatism and amnesia), the constitutionally unstable psychopath, and finally the chap who is simply depressed possibly due to low blood sugar (momentary malnutrition).
http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/murder-article.html
Here's a good article about murder:
The Murderer Next Door:
"...Dr. David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at The University of Texas at Austin and author of the just-published The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill has conducted an unprecedented set of studies investigating the underlying motives and circumstances of murders, from those of serial killers to the perfectly friendly next-door neighbor who one day commits murder. He examined FBI files of more than 400,000 murders, conducted a highly detailed study of nearly 400 murders, and led, with his collaborator Joshua Duntley, the largest homicidal fantasy study ever conducted.
Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition, Buss said. Our minds have developed adaptations to kill, which is contrary to previous theories that murder is something outside of human naturea pathology imposed from the distorting influences of culture, media images, poverty or child abuse.
Though we may like to think that murderers are either pathological misfits or hardened criminals, he added, the vast majority of murders are committed by people who, until the day they kill, seem perfectly normal.
http://www.utexas.edu/features/2005/murder/
9 People Who Literally Got Away With Murder:
-Casey Anthony Found Not Guilty in Murder of Her Daughter
-Vince Neil Killed His Best Friend
-Robert Blake Shot His Wife and Got Off
-Lizzy Borden Took An Axe... (You know the rest)
-Richard James Herrin, the Yale Murder Case
-Al Capone Jailed for
Tax Evasion
-Don King aka Stompy
-William S. Burroughs Played William Tell with Wife
-O.J. Simpson... Need We Say More?
http://www.oddee.com/item_98580.aspx
Why are we so fascinated with murder?
"We are fascinated because we wonder: would I have felt the same way, had the same impulse and would I have done the same thing? Would I have felt justifed? Would I have I have controlled myself? Was there nothing that could have stopped me or something that should have stopped him?
Sometimes, there is a very fine line between "normal" human passion and evil intent, between a loss of control and a desire to let loose...
Our fascination is driven by all of the many complexities that are to be found in the motive for murder. Even when we are certain that the intent is simply evil, there are still all of the degrees and forms of evil to be examined...
We are also fascinated by the investigation: Were the suspects many or was it someone acting alone? Were the clues subtle or obvious? Did the investigation require science or logic? Did the detectives rely on intuition or insight, acute powers of observation or just hard work? Was the perpetrator the usual, obvious suspect, or was it the person no one would ever suspect? When the investigation is over, we still have to ask: did they get the right guy?...
In real life, we also tend to focus acutely on whether or not it could happen to us. I am certain that no one is going to kill me for my fortune, but I am not so certain about my safety when I read about a senseless shooting of an innocent bystander or a burglary gone wrong that left the homeowner dead. We pay attention because we want to know if we are safe...
In the end, I think the fascination with murder is natural because there are so many different ways to judge each crime. We wonder about the victim, about the perpetrator, and about the circumstances. We are intrigued by the motive and the method and how they got away or how they got caught. We wonder who would be capable of the crime and whether they are normal like us or hopefully quite different..."
http://everydaypsychology.com/2011/05/why-are-we-so-fascinated-with-murder.html#.UwvqSPldVSB
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And that concludes our lecture in Murder for tonight.
:floorlaugh: :floorlaugh: :giggle:
Whoever didn't attend the lecture will be
illowfight:
and will receive an
F for the course.
:silly:
How'd your cousin do?
