Sample Criminal Justice Paper

Question

Based on your reading of Turvey chapter 22, answer the following: 1) Who is credited with having first coined the term serial killer? Who was he? What were his credentials? (we will revisit him and his colleagues next week) 2) List and discuss two of the myths regarding serial murderers explored by Turvey. 3) An offender’s cooling-off period is important to understanding their mental state. We will revisit cooling-off periods next week. What is a cooling-off period? 4) Not all serial offenders commit murder. Serial rapists often do not murder, sometimes because they prefer their victim to be alive during the crime. List the four motivations of rapists as discussed by Turvey. 5) Explain 3 of the 7 rapist motivations in the Baker typology of rapist motivations. 6) In serial murder cases, how an offender disposes of the body certainly informs the type of offender they are. What are the four questions that the disposal site aspects can help answer? Explain 3 of the 6 aspects of disposal sites. Note: We avoid AI-generated writing at all cost.

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Criminal Justice

Question One

Robert K. Ressler is credited with having first coined the English term ‘serial killer’. He used to refer to offenders obsessed with unfulfilled fantasies, hence leading them towards next offence in an attempt to fulfill them. Ressler was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and author who played a big role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders.

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Question Two

There are various myths relating serial murderers as explored by Turvey. The first myth is the assumption that offenders are usually Caucasian males who target young people in their late teens or early twenties. The reality, of course, is that this profile is usually more varied and includes murderers from different ethnicities. The other common myth is the belief that all serial murderers have a high intellectual capacity. This is not necessarily true as less intelligent serial murderers also do exist, but are probably not as notorious as the former.

Question Three

A cooling-off period is the time span during which offenders psychologically dissociate themselves from the reasons that led to their murderous behavior for a short while before go back to their non-criminal lives shortly afterwards.

Question Four

Preceding the occurrence of any sex crime, rapists usually harbor motives that are strong enough to drive the offender through four preconditions as discussed by Turvey. The first precondition is that the offender has to have a motive for committing the offence. Secondly, he must also have a way of dealing with any internal battles they may face. The third condition involves gaining access to their victims’ location by any means necessary, and lastly, they should be able to properly engage victims during the sexual act by overpowering them.

Question Five

 Baker typology offers seven rapist motivations, three of which include dividing, uniting, and power. The dividing motivation calls for the belief that women are essentially men’s property, and that rape establishes power over them. On the other hand, the uniting motivation describes gang-related rape behaviors which involve committing rape in order to prove masculinity and demonstrate strength to a group, usually in order to have a sense of belonging within the group. Thirdly, the power motivation describes offenders that use rape in order to have control over particular victims, one example being prison and marital rapes. Marital rapes often occur when a husband tries to assert control over a somewhat defiant wife.

Question Six

There are four questions that the disposal sites aspects can help answer, and they include whether, where, and when the offender had planned for the victim’s body be found; and the person the offender wanted to find the victim’s body. There are six aspects of disposal sites, and three of them include preselected, convenience, and remorse aspects. The preselected aspect identifies to disposal sites that are chosen by the offenders before committing the offense; they consider the suitability of the activities that they intend to engage the victim in before settling on them. The convenience aspect applies to the disposal site chosen by the offender on the basis of availability or accessibility, while the remorse aspect refers to a disposal site that shows that the offender felt immense remorse over the death of the victim. For example, the offender may wash the blood of a victim or place them in a natural position.