George “Bugs” Moran Mobster and a Businessman he made his millions running booze he lost his millions just as fast as he had made them in his bloody war with one of the biggest mobsters of all time. Bugs Moran mobster turned leader of the North Side Gang of Chicago Its Irish origin was now lead by a Minnesota Polish man. Bugs Moran was a notorious Mobster that came to be single head of his gang when the tragic death of his leaders and co-leaders, he was in a bloody war with Al Capone and his South Side Gang, and he was the target of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre that Al Capone had set up for him. Bugs Moran the surviving leader of the North Side gang after the many brutal murders that came by the hands of Al Capone and his South Side gang. In 1926 Moran became the sole leader of the gang after the “Death
Moran’s criminal activity started early as he was sent to Juvie three times before the age of 21, all for petty crimes(BugsMoran.net). “Bugs” Moran moved to Chicago when he was 19 to further his criminal career. Dean O’Banion accepted Moran into the North Side Gang when he arrived to Chicago. At the time, O’Banion was the leader of the Irish-American Gang, and when the prohibition began O’Banion bought out many of the distilleries and breweries and continued making alcohol and illegally selling it to the public with a massive price hike. The prohibition lead to a significant rise in organized crime, and North Side Gang was no exclusion to that rise.
Moran escaped and went to Chicago Illinois, where he was later arrested trying to rob a storage facility, taking part in a horse smuggling ring, and robbing a freight train taking part in a robbery involving
At 10:30 am on February 14th, 1929, seven men were murdered in a garage on the north side of Chicago. These seven men all had an association with the North Side Gang, which was headed by George “Bugs” Moran. Moran was having a truckload of whiskey delivered to the garage at the time, which is why the seven victims were present. Shortly after their arrival, two men dressed as police officers and two unidentified men lined up the victims inside the garage and shot them with Thompson machine guns. The believed target of this attack was George “Bugs” Moran, however, he was running late and was not present.
He dropped out of school in third grade then ran away from home. After running away he spent his young adult life in and out of jail for minor crimes. His arrest were mostly small theft crimes. Just about every time he got locked up, he managed to break out of jail or prison.
He would go and do drive by shootings at Capone’s cars and businesses. Then to top it all off they both had each other’s buildings that they owned burned to the ground. Moran was so brutal that he captured Capone’s men and tortured them before killing them. This was the cause of the feud.
During the times of 1972 to 1978, John Wayne Gacy Jr. killed 33 people in the Chicago area. He was known for raping, torturing, then strangling his victims (SC4). Then he would dispose of the bodies by either dumping them into a river or hiding them beneath his house. He wasn't caught until after the murder of his final victim in 1978. Then he became one of the most famous serial killers in American history.
Frederick Douglass used metaphors in his writing to convey his intense hatred for slaveholders. Douglass wrote, “I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his infernal grasp his trembling prey.” This quote is directed towards a slaveholder. Douglass, a slave himself, has immense hatred for slaveholders. The harsh hope Douglass left describes exactly how slaves feel during their lives.
Within the past couple of decades, criminologists have developed different criminological theories that apply to the social behaviors and decisions of criminals. One of the earliest theories developed regarding criminality is the rational choice theory, in which describes the rationalization of determining if the rewards from committing the crime outweigh the consequences. In Scarver’s case, his decision to engage in criminal activities outweighed the potential consequences, or the other alternatives if he did not engage in such criminal activities. In addition to the rational choice theory, Scarver’s criminality can be related to the social disorganization theory, which describes the influence of one’s social and physical environment on one’s decision to commit a crime. Lastly, the strain theory can be related to Scarver’s criminality as well, as it is used to describe an individual who lacks the means to obtain such goals, and aspirations, so therefore, he or she engages in criminal activities to acquire the goals.
The serial killer John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. Gacy grew up in an awful home, his father was a drunk and literally beat Gacy until he was unconscious. His mother would try to protect Gacy but it would just cause her to get beat also. Not only did Gacy must go through a terrible home life he also had zero friends at school they all bullied him. The only friend he thought he had sexually molested him.
Capone knew of his and had lookouts across the street. One of them thought they saw Moran himself and told the other members who were nearby. They arrived in a police car and police uniforms and pretended to be raiding the warehouse. They “lined the seven men inside up against a brick wall, and then raked them with machine-gun fire and shotgun blasts” but to bystanders, with the men in uniform, it seemed like it was normal police action during an arrest (Morrow). He was never
Between the mid-late 1970s and the early 1980s, Dennis Nilsen began mass murdering young men in Great Britain that had at least 15 men through strangulation (Crime Investigation, 2014). In analyzing his life, many of contributions throughout his life could have influenced his criminal behaviour when committing his crimes. Many theories such as broken home hypothesis and schema therapy theory use psychological explanations that determine how the individual resulted into committing their crimes. With schema therapy theory, not only does it discuss the justification for criminal behaviour, but suggests how to reduce the relapse of criminal acts by identifying the cause or the trigger of the individual’s criminal behaviour (Vos et al., 2016). In Dennis Nilsen’s life, there are several indications such as the abandonment of his family members, the termination of a past relationship, and the reclusiveness from society that could have resulted
John Wayne Gacy is a serial killer who killed 33 people in total. He was born on May 17th 1942 in Chicago where he was physically and verbally abused by his father. Since this age he showed unusual behaviours and avoiding society, but then was determined that he has a psychological disorder. He moved to Los Angeles and was living a normal life however he started showing his real face in 1968 where he raped a young, male employee.
Criminal behaviour has always been an interest for psychologists, for they could never quite come to a conclusion between nature and nurture. Research concerning this topic has been organized for many years and due to the never ending debate, is still being conducted. I have decided to read and write about this myself, for I was genuinely curious about the matter and wanted to be a part of the research, as I felt responsible to do so. I believe that in order to stop something, it must be discussed and scrutinized. What effects do genes have on criminal behaviour, why do peer pressure and habitat influence a person to commit crimes and are men really more violent than women?
Being Healthy Most Americans obsess over what they eat and how much of it they consume. Americans are also notorious for trying whatever new diet is popular at the moment. This is an example that accounts towards the weird relationship most Americans have with food. Mary Maxfield might frown upon American’s unhealthy relationship with food on people like Michael Pollan, who makes outrageous claims without any scientific proof. Michael Pollan offers what he considers to be the American paradox – “a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with…the idea of being healthy” (442).
