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Criminal Profiling and Other Issues

artists, ruthless manipulators, and petty criminals. Psychopaths usually commit crimes because they like to control, dominate, and...

Making a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: The Legal Implications

have also engaged in outpatient mental health care services. Ms. Tyler held a job on an assembly line for a short period of time...

Benefits of Insanity as a Legal Defense

insanity. Of course, if they do avoid a criminal sentence, they are often locked up in an institution for a very long period. Whil...

Insanity in Comparative Literature

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

Insanity Defense and Juvenile Justice

to issues such as competency and differences between the adult and juvenile courts. We have struggled throughout history of...

Creating a Serial Killer

serial killers may be influenced by the society and the media that is all around them. La Donna tells us that a child may see as m...

Ted Bundy Case Study

ultimately leads to adulthood crimes is irrefutable. Senator Ed Perlmutter, who sponsored a bill to stiffen the punishment ...

Serial Killers and Hate Crimes

anything other than oppression and autocracy. Freedom represents many things, not the least of which is the envy and hatred...

Aileen Wuornos and 'Freedom of the Individual versus the Power of Society'

into distinct groupings based upon certain criteria. These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in t...

Articles by Fox and Levin and Rosenhan Critiqued

means always present. In any event, it...

Literary Analysis of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage

trademark. He occasionally collaborated with his partner, screenwriter Bill Whitehead, and was encouraged to embark upon a writin...

A Serial Killer's Needs and the Application of Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Of course, this is not unusual. There have been numerous serial killers who have led ordinary lives. In fact, there is a stereotyp...

Serial Killer Glen Rogers

(Barasch, 1996; p. 226). Profile In understanding something of the way in which Rogers worked we look at one particular incide...

Sanity and insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

This paper looks at sanity and madness in Gilman's narrative The Yellow Wallpaper, and explores the concept that for the heroine, ...

The Narrator's Role in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

Randy Woodfield, 'the I5 Killer'

killing spree along the I-5 section of interstate. His story seems to typify that of several other serial killers, Ted Bundy, for ...

Is Deviant Behavior Criminal Insanity Or Something That Can be Treated, Punished Through Incarceration?

anything, nor does it increase the childs self-esteem. Children begin to feel that no matter what they do, that its okay. Theyre...

Science, Insanity, and The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Frankenstein

it. If it was possible to create a human being, why not? he never stopped to think about what the consequences were and whether he...

Investigation of the Green River Serial Killer Gary Ridgway

decomposed and hard to identify. Although Ridgway had always been considered one of the top five suspects in the case, County sher...

Protagonist's Insanity in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

Insanity in Literature

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

Analyzing 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

Broadening of the Insanity Defense

not have full control of their faculties. These orphans of society are often compelled by an emotional or mental imbalance that p...

Historical Significance of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...

Loni Athens' Brutalization Theories and Carignan, the 'Want Ad' Serial Killer

their own. The placing of the want-ad, however, seems to have been an isolated incident: he was more inclined to give his victims ...

Argument that Hamlet Was Not a Victim of Insanity

he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Insanity

In six pages this paper examines the theme of insanity as portrayed in Gilman's story. Ten other sources are cited in the bibliog...

Annotated Bibliography on Female Serial Killers

In eleven pages this paper discusses women serial killers in a comparison and contrast with their male counterparts in this journa...

Friedrich Nietzsche Quote from Beyond Good and Evil and its Validity

The validity of the quote 'In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule' featured ...

First US Serial Killer Herman Mudgett

In eight pages this paper examines the documentation related to Herman Mudgett, who is believed to be the first known serial kille...