The purpose of this case study is to analyze Reginald Tone's behaviors and early life in order to attempt to provide some reasoning behind the crimes he committed. Reginald Tone was arrested in 2008 and charged and convicted of three murders and ten assaults that were both sexual and violent in nature. These crimes will be analyzed in context of Tone's childhood and adolescence, drawing on both his actions and the environment in which he was raised. Some key factors of Tone'e early life will be discussed and used to apply pertinent psychological theories and prospectives to try to explain why Tone committed the crimes that he did.
Case Summary When Reginald was arrested in 2008 for his crimes, he denied the rape allegations, describing the sexual assault as consensual sex. All of the women that were assault were strangled and raped in their own flats or apartments. All of these women were of different ages, falling between 18 an 45 at the time of the attack. Tone straggled each woman with a piece of her own clothing, usually the cord of her dressing gown, and left her apartment or flat in a state of disarray that resembled a burglary. Upon further investigation, the police found that the only items missing from the crime scene were various articles of clothing. Tone's earlier
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As a child and young teen, Reginald was exposed to quite a lot of violence and deviant behaviors through his family. Sociologist E.H. Sutherland developed and social learning theory called differential association that suggests that a persons criminal behavior is learned through other people, usually the people close to that person (Ainsworth, 2000). Reginald's crimes consisted of violent assault, sexual assault, and apparent burglary, all of which existed in his household in the form of his father or brothers, who would often use Reginald to help them rob people's