...http://all-that-is-interesting.com/infamous-female-criminals-killers/2 http://all-that-is-interesting.com/infamous-female-criminals-killers/2 | Aileen Wuornos: In the Mind of a Serial Killer | By: Ashlee Pickard | | Criminal Investigations 2013 | 12/4/2013 | Aileen Wuornos was a serial killer who was executed in 2002 for murdering six men. Before she began to kill, Aileen Wuornos was a prostitute for several years. Since a life of prostitution was not providing the type of life she had hoped, Aileen decided that she would start robbing and murdering innocent men. | “I am a serial killer. I would kill again. I’m one who seriously hates human life and would kill again,” are the famous words of Aileen Wuornos during her trial as she was frustrated and infuriated (biography.com). Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes, races and genders. In the United States, serial killers are predominately white men, however, there are still women serial killers and they can be just as vicious as male serial killers. Few people associate women as being vicious and violent killers because of the misconception that women are sensitive, nurturing, and compassionate. Many women serials killers such as Aileen Wuornos use this misconception in an attempt to lure their victims and brutally kill them. Aileen Wuornos is considered the first women serial killer because she was the first woman to fit the FBI’s profile of a serial killer. The term “female serial killer” was definitely something new in the...
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...Aileen Wuornos Rebecca McRunnel CRJ 308 Psychology of Criminal Behavior Professor David Ojo October 6, 2014 A serial killer is defined as a “person who murders three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a “cooling off” period between each murder, which whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification.” (University, n.d) Many times serial murders go unsolved and other times it takes decades to unravel. According to the FBI there is no set profile of a serial killer, because they can come in all sizes, ages, shapes, colors and groups. (Welch, 2011) They tend to operate within their comfort zone, which is there area where they work, live or they have relative’s homes. (Roberts, 2011)...
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...Matt Klaus Professor Firestone Com 4030 4 March 2012 Feminist Criminology, Aileen Wuornos, and the Future of Third Wave Feminism Crime committed by women is on the rise, especially in the area of violent crimes such as murder (Balfour’ 739). This has produced a new form of feminist studies in an area called feminist criminology. What hasn’t been studied as extensively is the question of why women kill. I argue that by using the individuality concept of third wave feminism and doing more research in the field of feminist criminology, patterns of criminal behavior may be established which may prevent severe female crime such as murder. This paper seeks to explain how advancing the study of feminist criminology is good for the U.S. legal system and could have changed the outcome for Aileen Wuornos. In this paper I will discuss what third wave feminism is, then I will discuss what feminist criminology is and how it applies to the Aileen Wuornos case, and lastly I will show that with advanced studies into the field of feminist criminology, odds of severe crimes committed by women could decrease. The third wave of feminism is not easily describable. However, it can be framed by saying that it is a movement that continues to advance the women’s rights agenda of the second wave (Zimmerman et al. 77). Unlike the second wave which was intended to give a voice to all women, the third wave tends to reflect more on the individual. By focusing on personal narratives, responsible...
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...Looking into the minds of serial killers is a tricky task, a couple questions to start with are questions such as what is a Serial killer? According to the FBI’s version of the definition, a serial killer is conventionally defined as a person who murders three or more people in a period of over a month, with “cooling down” time between murders. “For a serial killer, the murders must be separate events, which are most often driven by a psychological thrill or pleasure. Serial killers often lack empathy and guilt, and most often become egocentric individuals; these characteristics classify certain serial killers as psychopaths.” (crime museum editors, 2017). Xxx explain quote Even though the definition seems straightforward, multiple others...
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...The social control theory plays a big role in the case of Aileen Wuornos. Her life was destined for failure and she was very unhappy person. Her mother Diane, who was a child herself, rejected her and her brother Keith and her father was a known sex offender. Aileen did not know how to find pleasure in a normal relationship due to the fact that she had never had a bond with her parents or grandparents, thus causing her to become detached from others. Aileen believed that she could never do anything right because people always told her negative things about herself. She had very little self-control and developed obsessive, uncontrollable, and selfish tendencies. She started engaging in sexual activities with boys in her school in trade for food, drugs, and cigarettes. The social reaction (labeling theory) is also a part of her case. Aileen was labeled as a repulsive prostitute who engaged in a bisexual relationship and society looked at her as an outcast. In the eyes of society, she was a disgrace to womanhood and people frowned upon her. She was also labeled a murderer and she denied the title and tried to convince the judge and jury that she had murdered her first victim in self defense. Claiming that he raped her and got what he...
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...There is a thin line between factual legitimate news coverage and the tabloids. The source of the information isn't always known, nor is the person presenting the information given. In some cases the media has already convicted the person of the crime. Thus giving you information based on their opinionated thoughts, we don't get both sides. The media can the make defendant look however they want. In the case of Aileen Wuornos “The media branded Aileen Wuornos as the first female serial killer in U.S. history, and turned this theme into the centerpiece of her trial coverage...Television and tabloid coverage that made her out to be a ‘man-hating murderer’ helped sway public opinion against her.” Information the media give us may not be the whole truth, which can alter our thoughts on the case based on the information and how the media depicts...
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...Case Analysis: Aileen Wuornos Tiffin University Samantha M. Rippey Do you believe a person’s genetics or environment most influence their psychological development (behavior, habits, sexuality, personality, etc.)? This is the nature versus nurture psychological debate. The nature argument believes that a person’s genetics determine their development. An example of this would be someone extremely successful in school crediting their academic success to a family of intelligent people (genetic predisposition). The nurture argument believes that people are products of their environment. If a child grows up surrounded by criminals and continuously observes their behaviors, it may not be a surprise when they enter a life of crime. It would be safe to say that they were a product of their environment. Background Information Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in the state of Florida from 1989-1990. Aileen Carol Pittman was born in Rochester, Michigan on February 29, 1956. Her biological father was Lee Dale Pittman, who was a psychopathic child molester. Lee Pittman committed suicide by hanging himself in a prison cell in 1969. Unfortunately, Aileen never really got to know her father. Aileen had an older brother named Keith who was born in 1955. Aileen and Keith were abandoned by their parents in 1960 and adopted by their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos. Aileen and Keith did...
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...The case of Aileen Wuornos, reportedly America’s first female serial killer, has been a subject of news media since the early 1990s when the bodies of several men were found murdered along the highways of north and central Florida (Pike and Linning, 2018) The first of which, 51-year-old convicted rapist and electronics store owner Richard Mallory, was found in December 1989 in a wooded area after being shot twice in the left lung (Myall, 2018). Construction worker David Spears, 43’s naked body was then found by a Floridian highway on 1 June 1990 having been shot six times (Baker, 2018). Five days later, the body of 40-year-old rodeo worker Charles Carskaddon, was discovered with nine small caliber bullets to the chest and abdomen. Peter...
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...Macbeth: The Murder “To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out cause of the circumstances of what I was doing.”- Aileen Wuornos. Aileen Wuornos was an american serial killer that killed over seven men. She was driven through how she saw this world as evil and how circumstances let her evil side come out. This is exactly like how Macbeth see his world in the play Macbeth written by Shakespeare is about a Man that who became a murderer after a series of influencing events. The First one was with the witches and the prophecies that were told to him. This one is Important, but not the main reason for Macbeth's actions. It was The agitation of the king that cause him to kill him and not though his influenced by his wife. He also show agitation in the play which leads him to kill King Duncan....
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...Is cheating and murder analogous? Is it the adrenaline rush of possibly getting caught? Maybe it’s like a drug once you start it you can’t stop. The legal definition of a serial killer is someone who has killed at least three people in a matter of thirty days. All serial killers are psychopaths and sociopaths, but be that as it may not all sociopaths and psychopaths are killers. To know a killer we have to get into the mindset of one. Nevertheless, the question that still stands is what makes a serial killer? The dictionary definition of a serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable pattern (Oxford). What is a sociopath? A sociopath is a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience ( Dictionary). What is a psychopath? A psychopath is a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc (Dictionary)....
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...Serial Killers: Inside the Twisted Minds Angel M. Fiore Survey of Criminal Justice Remington College Abstract “Murder” the unlawful taking of ones life. In the next few pages we will explore three main types of murders. We will touch bases on “Spree Killers” such as the 1920's bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrows. Then we will move on down to the 1995 Oklahoma City Bomber “Mass Murder” Timothy McVeigh. Finally we will go in depth into the minds and life of my favorite of the three types, the “Serial Killers” Aileen Wuornos and Jeffery Dahmer. What motivated those five individuals to participate in their crimes against humanity. Did they have no choice and it was genetics from the time they were conceived? Could it have been a learned behavior from the society and the time around them. Or could it have just simply been that they were completely mad. Before we are done we will see the similar and differences of all five of these individuals and their types of murder. We can say one thing thou, they all have one common bond with each other and their victims. Whether they died from a gun squad of police, the state lethal injection, or by the hands of another inmate like their unwilling victims they all ended up on a mortician's cold dead slab. Murder is defined as “ the unlawful killing of a human being.” We can break down murder into many different categories. Some of those can be broke down as spree killing, mass murder, and serial killers. Let’s explore...
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...VOLUME EDITOR S. WALLER is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University Bozeman. Her areas of research are philosophy of neurology, philosophy of cognitive ethology (especially dolphins, wolves, and coyotes), and philosophy of mind, specifically the parts of the mind we disavow. SERIES EDITOR FRITZ ALLHOFF is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe,Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). P H I L O S O P H Y F O R E V E RYO N E Series editor: Fritz Allhoff Not so much a subject matter, philosophy is a way of thinking.Thinking not just about the Big Questions, but about little ones too.This series invites everyone to ponder things they care about, big or small, significant, serious … or just curious. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind Edited by Michael W. Austin Wine & Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking Edited by Fritz Allhoff Food & Philosophy: Eat,Think and Be Merry Edited by Fritz Allhoff and Dave Monroe Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking Edited by Steven D. Hales Whiskey & Philosophy:...
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