Despite all the policies, punishments and training that has been implemented over the years, sexual violence and harassment continues to be a major problem in our Army today. This kind of behavior ruins morale destroys team cohesion and, in some cases, shatters trust with leadership....
Despite the federal laws and regulations put in place, one out of every five women is affected by sexual violence at some point during their college careers. Likewise, one out of every 71 men is affected by sexual violence during their time at college. Every...
Presenting Problem Over the semester, the University has sent out numerous emails about sexual assault incidents near and on campus. In the last year along many students have started to notice the significant amount of emails and not much about actions that have been taken...
Sexual harassment is described as any form of unwanted sexual behavior, sexual acts or sexual discrimination that affects all kinds of people, male or female and it is against the law, where harassers violates humans whole being and its rights. Others think that males cause...
In order to fight against sexual assaults on college campuses, we must first understand the crime statistics. This becomes difficult due to reporting behavior. According to Chelsea Spencer, a contributor to “Why Sexual Assault Survivors Do Not Report to Universities: A Feminist Analysis”, eighty percent...
The Army’s Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) program plays a critical role in addressing and combating sexual harassment and sexual assault within the military. Despite the extensive training and resources provided through SHARP, the prevalence of these incidents continues to rise, raising important questions...
Introduction It has been deduced that crime prevention is an ever-emerging area of criminological research and practice, whereby the efficacy of such strategies determine the quality of everyday living amongst individuals. Cocooning is a domestic burglary prevention strategy which involves visits from police officers to...
The rational choice hypothesis is portrayed as the conviction that guilty criminals take an interest in illegal behaviors with information on the law and plausibility of apprehension. They measure the favorable circumstances and inconveniences before they participate in criminal conduct and if they feel that...
Theory is an explanation, a model or a framework for understanding events or processes. This in turn helps the criminal justice system begin to understand not just why people commit crime but also who commits crime and how offenders stop offending. As stated by Cornish...
This essay shall focus solely on the relationship between psychopathy and criminal behaviour. To begin with, the essay shall offer a clear definition of psychopathy and its tendencies along with its prevalence and the way it is assessed. Next, the Attachment and Arousal theories of...
Introduction Theories which explore crimes from the perspective of offenders are of crucial importance in the field of criminology. The application of such theories to criminal events helps us identify key contributing factors that can explain the criminal behavior and have significant policy implications. For...
The actions of serial killers shock many people, leading them to wonder why such individuals commit these heinous acts and what factors might make one killer more malicious than another. John Wayne Gacy and Jeffery Dahmer, two of the most infamous serial killers of the...
Introduction John Wayne Gacy was active between 1972 and 1978, He was a murderer/rapist with 33 known homicide victims all identified as young men and boys between the ages of 14 – 21. While Gacy was not slaughtering people, he was an outgoing neighbour every...
John Wayne Gacy, also known as the Killer Clown, is a rapist and serial killer who is known to have committed over 33 murders of male young adults over a 10 year period. He was born in 1942 in a low-income neighborhood of Chicago to...
Within this essay discusses the paintings produced by the serial killer John Wayne Gacy is his morality presented within his work and should the aesthetic value of his work be affected by his morality. In this essay the work of Gacy that will be referenced...
“Psychopathy is a clinical construct characterized by a core set of affective, interpersonal, lifestyle, and antisocial features”. Psychopathic individuals tend to be insensitive, lack empathy for others, and display little guilt or remorse for their actions. Psychopaths often inflict physical damage to strangers or even...
Introduction It was a brisk December afternoon in Cook County, Illinois, and everything seemed to be going well. Children were out of school, celebrating the holidays, while parents were out and about making a final mad dash for Christmas gifts. The year was 1978, and...
John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer better known as Pogo The Clown. At a young age, he lived through an abusive childhood that molded him into the likable clown everyone appeared to enjoy but little to be known about the devil himself behind the costume....
The factors of a person’s past can influence the way they will succeed or fail in the future. For example, John Wayne Gacy had a horrible childhood and from those experiences became one of the deadliest serial killers. The terrible early life he went through...