Julie B. Wiest's Applying The Model Of American Culture

1. Summary on “Applying the Model of American Culture” by Julie B. Wiest

Introduction

The author, Julie B. Wiest, analyzes serial murders in the American society from two different aspects—the different contextual characteristics of serial murders from American cultural values and the specific ways that the American mass media report serial murderers (Wiest 107). The opinions of the author will be briefly summarized as follows.

Summary

In the first part, the author agrees that serial murders are the outcome of certain contextual features in American cultural values, and the author further demonstrates five features that might be suitable for serial killers. To begin with, violence in American culture greatly contributes to the formation

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