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For most people, only the person involved in the encounter are labeled as victims. The pain comes in from the view of one who feels the full effects of the ordeal. However, there is more to the scope of victims than the person directly involved in the crime. Debra narrates how much her family participates in events following up her kidnap and her husband’s murder. Family members would like to see the perpetrator get the death penalty.
Castro had seen Amanda Berry walking from school and had asked her if she needed a lift. Amanda Berry had known him from knowing Castro’s daughter in middle school. Castro had then brought up if Amanda had known his daughter and wanted to see if Amanda would love to stop by the house to see his daughter. Amanda had replied “yes”. As soon as they got into the house Amanda had asked where was Castro’s daughter and he had stated that his daughter was probably taking a shower, so Amanda had then waited for several minutes to where she had to go to the bathroom and Castro had made her go into the dark basement.
This past Sunday, June 18th, America lost muslim teen, Nabra Hassanen to what most call road rage, and others, a hate crime. Hassanen, accompanied by a group of friends were headed back to a local mosque after a trip to a fast-food restaurant. It was then that they encountered driver Darwin Martinez Torres and an argument erupted. The altercation escalated, resulting in the capturing and death of 17 year old Hassanen. Torres had beaten her with a baseball bat, abducted her, and dumped her body into a lake.
Abuse of Power: Cleveland Abduction The article Cleveland Kidnapping Victims Release a Memoir was written by the Crimesider Staff at CBS News. The thesis of this article is the women who survived the kidnapping; Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus written their own book and their experiences in the house Ariel Castro kept them in for nearly a decade. They named their book “Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland”.
On February 4, 1974, in Berkeley, California, a 19-yr old girl named Patty Hearst was kidnapped. She was held as a “prisoner of war” by a leftist group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group demanded millions of dollars for her to return safely. Everything was falling into place until she helped rob a bank and a store. She was arrested, but she claimed that she was brainwashed.
On November 1, 2014 Richard Melville, twelve years old, was riding the school bus home from Bedford Falls Middle School. He was dropped off in the area of 666 Elm Street, an area and building owned by C.D. Management. This area is urban with vacant structures, empty lots, commercial establishments, decrepit buildings, and a high frequency of crime. Richard was approached outside of 666 Elm Street, coerced into the building’s basement, and was brutally beaten, leaving him unconscious. As a result, Richard suffered serious injuries.
The Victim an eighteen year old who was walking home after work was and was abducted, tied, robbed and raped. (Hogrogian, J. 1999 ) The abductor, a man who threaten his victim
For the general majority of current day Americans, the experience of the Central Park Five is seen as a journey of injustice—with the Five now widely regarded as innocent. It all started in 1989, when Central Park jogger, Trisha Meili, was attacked and raped. At the time all eyes were on the boys, whose actions in the park prior to the rape and confessions in the precinct branded them as prime suspects. The victim was left for dead in a ravine, sodomized and beaten to a point where she has lost most of her blood. Then the confession, along with the supporting evidence, of a single man—Matias Reyes—changed the perspective of the boys’ guilt.
Ripple Effect Personal Organizing is a full-service professional organizing firm that is located in Oakland, California. Their services and specialities include working with seniors, working with the chronically disorganized, office organizing, unpack and organize new home, kitchen organizing, downsizing/simplifying, de-cluttering, and emergency preparedness. Ripple Effect Personal Organizing holds a Certificate of Study in Needs of the Aging and Certificate of Study in Chronic Disorganization.
It pains me to say that I will not have the satisfaction of giving each and every one of those people who escaped or not the credit and appraisal that they so dutifully deserve. No, in this essay I will be focusing on three people, each with their own hardships and their own “imprisonments”, whether those “imprisonments” were literal or not; they deserve to be appraised. All three of these people contrast against each other greatly but, at the same time have immense comparisons. For example, all three of these people are minorities but, only two of them are male.
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
In the article, Vatican City Zoo Struggling To Breed First Angel In Captivity, written by the Onion, uses the rhetorical devices of satire and simile. These rhetorical devices provide for an engaging text that entices the reader to read on, while providing exaggerated comparisons and crude comments that appeal to the audience sense of humor. The use of satirical strategies allows for a subject to be blown out of proportion, allowing the authors to add emphasis to their work, stressing specific topic so the reader will understand the point that they are trying to get across. In the text, Vatican City Zoo Struggling To Breed First Angel In Captivity, it states, "After months of failed attempts to coax their sole mating pair into conceiving, officials from the Vatican City Zoo admitted Wednesday that they were unsure whether the facility would ever successfully breed an angel in captivity.", so as seen in the text, they describe that humans have captured a pair of angels in hope to make them mate.
When the children are left at home while their parents work, they often eat their food, along with their parents’ food, never considering the consequences of this. When their parents get home hungry and find no food, they beat the children with whatever they can find. The defenseless children have no way of stopping this. The prisoners are given the same meal every day: corn porridge, pickled cabbage, and cabbage soup. Could you imagine eating the exact same meal every single day for your entire life?
Mendelsohn calls the victim and his offender the ‘Penal couple '. The victim offender relationship may contain origin of victimization. The inhibitions and offender may have seemed to change according to the type of qualities the victim possesses. The attitude and behaviour of the victim influences the offender and which makes possible the criminal act.
When it comes to lawmaking in the present-day United States, many things influence proposed bills and passed laws, like current or possible issues the country could face noticed by the legislative branch. Most of the time, however, it’s things like the citizens of the country that bring attention to issues the legislative branch can’t or won’t exactly acknowledge themselves. It is so that makes individuals a large influence in lawmaking because of direct citizen involvement with the government, interest groups, and political bias and support. American citizens are given the options of being involved in what laws are issued by two processes: the initiative and the referendum. The initiative process allows citizens to propose laws to the legislature
