In my Patterns of Criminal Behavior class I am studying about the subject of predatory vs affective behaviors in the violent criminal. The entire thing has me thinking; whose the most predatory, the criminal or the public after they find out about the crime??? I mean for real, I hear what people have to say about crimes, and most of them don't even want to hear what caused the crime or how the criminal might have been thinking, what was going on in their minds or lives, all they want to know is that a law was broken and it was not legal. Society only cares that someone got harmed and all of a sudden, their own violence comes out. How does society treat the crime? Treatment methods become more illegal acts that now become legal because the acts are being imposed upon a person who has done something illegal. The punishment imposed is violent, it fits all of the definitions, and it's not even affective (spur of the moment, self defense, insanity) its predatory (well thought out, planned, many chances and opportunities to rescind but none acted upon) without remorse. In fact, when a person is even suspected of a crime the public goes crazy, enacting stages of vigilante justice against the suspected criminal before he/she is even found guilty of the crime. It all discloses itself in a predatory nature.
So once again I ask, whose more predatory, the criminal or the accusers?
I would say both parties are at fault. I actually want to know patterns of thinking that criminals have because it seems to make more sense to see why they were like this. From what I have studied most criminals lack remorse, but some have it and it is hard to stereotype a criminal because of Ted Bundy for example. He was a "charming" person, and many woman thought he looked decent, but he was psycho. I know one thing in common most serial killers seem to have had rough childhoods most who kill woman had a bad mother. This is not always the case though.
I liked you blog though and you bring up some good points to look at.
http://www.progressiveu.org/043043-mom-i-can-finally-write-you-letter
Sorry to disappoint you, but I am voting for Lewis Black.
DrifterDani~
Thank you for your comments:)
In studying criminology you are taught about three different types of criminals, there is the career criminal, the situational criminal, and the mentally ill. There are also many other categories, but these are the three main categories. As far as the career criminal is concerned, it is believed that they don't necessarily lack remorse, they have actually learned, through a series of neutralization techniques, to ignore their remorse because they have consciously weighed the costs and benefits of their crimes and believe that their crimes produce more benefits to them then they do costs. This is the hardest type of criminal to rehabilitate. However, it's when the neutralization backfires and they feel a sudden influx of remorse that they slip up, end up in a situational type offense that is unlike their normal offenses and get caught. The nest type is the situational criminal. This criminal engages in an affective type, commits the offense as a one time offense, and then does not go back to commit any more crime. These crimes occur during a breakdown of mental forces, such as retaliation against a lifetime of abuse, a sudden reaction to postpartum depression, etc. These criminals usually feel a lot of remorse once the reality of the crime they committed becomes supplanted within their conscience. The third type is the mentally ill criminal. There are many types of mentally ill categories, the one of greatest concern would be that of the primary psychopath. This small population of criminals were born with the inability to feel emotions, or had some sort of incidence at birth that created the inability to feel emotions. They suffer anti-social personalities, apathy and amorphism. These traits make it easy for this type of criminal to commit a crime and even talk about it as if it's no big deal.