Girls Gone Bad With reference to four articles related to murder committed by young women, I will explain why Cohen’s theory of moral panic is not applicable to crimes committed by young women now. Moral Panic is defined as “a condition, person, group of people or episode that has been labelled as a threat to societal values and interests.” Cohen (1973). On March 19 2014, a 16-year old girl named Errandy Gutierrez murdered her former best friend, Anel Baez by stabbing her sixty-five times. The motivation behind her act was that Anel Baez posted naked pictures of Gutierrez on her Facebook account. The murder could only happen due to deception as Gutierrez met up with Baez promising to reconcile, but Gutierrez had the ulterior motive …show more content…
Sevenson and Doyle were both twenty-two years old at the time of the crime. On July 6 2012, sixteen year-old Skylar Neese was murdered by her two close friends, Rachel Shoaf and Sheila Eddy. The two murderers stabbed Neese before hiding the body. Shoaf and Eddy denied knowing what happened to Neese when her disappearance was first reported. Eddy continued tweeting in social media like normal after the crime before confessing to the homicide with Shoaf. Their reason was because they simply "didn 't like her anymore" as said by the killers. Before her death, Neese had tweeted about not being able to trust unidentified individuals. and most of her tweets expressed anger to specific people. On November 2015, 22-year old Ashleigh Wade murdered her childhood best friend Angelikque Sutton by stabbing her after Sutton allowed Wade into her home. Wade then sliced Sutton open and removed the baby from a then pregnant Sutton. When police arrived, Sutton claimed she killed only to defend herself and that the baby was hers, however, the police did not believe her lies and eventually arrested her. Before the crime, Wade and Sutton reconnected via Facebook. The criminal justice officials were depicted as being not easy to fool as even though they were lied to by the perpetrators, it didn 't take them long to figure out something wasn 't right about the perpetrator’s dishonest statements. The police were also quick in arresting the perpetrators, not taking more than a
His dead body was found in the woods near Daytona Beach, Florida, shot with a twenty two caliber rifle. “She ended up shooting six .22 caliber bullets into him” (McDuff 202). This is just one of the many catastrophes performed by a woman serial killer. Serial killers are a problem in the United States, murdering on average 2000 people each year (Indiana University np). “In fact, serial murder in the United States alone makes up more than three-quarters of the estimated world total” (Innes 5). Although women serial killers are not very common, they still have a huge impact on the death toll of innocent victims. In order to understand how woman serial killers operate, it is important to understand their motives, the different classifications
In the video “The Confessions” presented by Frontline, a murder of a women that was committed by one man, quickly resulted into a false gang murder-rape scene committed by eight men. The victim, Michelle Bosko, was seen to be raped and killed in her apartment in Norfolk, Virginia. From the video, it has been proven that seven out of the eight men that confessed were innocent, but somehow they all received an unequal punishment. Because the innocent men admitted to a murder that they didn’t commit out of fear, they were all sentenced to some time in prison. The head detective, Glenn Ford, intimidated the men so much that they either were convinced that they were at the crime scene or they told him every detail that he wanted to hear.
Nicole LaFreniere drove drunk and killed 3 people. She was just starting off her career. She had finish cosmetology school and had just gotten a job at a salon in Livermore, California. She decided to let loose and celebrate her accomplishments. She went to the Livermore Saloon bar with a couple of friends, Kyle and Jennifer and ran into some other friends she knew at the bar. She was 20 years old with a fake ID in order to buy some drinks but the bar did not ID her. She had a couple of mixed drinks, had a shot of Jagermeister and downed some Vodka. She then started dancing to the music and just having fun. Her and her friends then walked down the street to
Kristi Abraham mother of four, pleaded guilty of murdering her six year old daughter, Kiesha, whose remains were found in a bushland in Sydney’s west in early 2011. The young six year old was reported missing 8 months before her remains were found. Her body was kept in a suitcase for three days before it was disposed of.
In the year 2010, 26-year-old Kenzie Houk was found murdered in her bed. Kenzie was shot in her head. Kenzie was also eight months pregnant when she was murdered (nydailynews.com). The person who found the body was her 4-year-old daughter. When the police officers arrived at the scene, they searched to see if anybody broke into the house. The police officers were unable to find any force entry. The police officers even thought it was a possibility that Kenzie ex-boyfriend could of committed the murder, but they were unable to connect him to the murder. Eventually, the police officers found out that the murderer was none other then the 11-year-old Jordan Anthony Brown.
On July 15, 2008, Cindy Anthony called the police saying her daughter Casey Anthony stole her car and some money. Later that same day the police received another call from the same person saying that her granddaughter Caylee Anthony had been gone for over a month. When this was heard, they knew they had a big case on their hands. The mother Casey Anthony was taken into custody and told many lies concerning the whereabouts of her daughter. The police began to investigate and found some interesting things that could very well prove Casey Anthony guilty of kidnapping and murder of her own daughter.
In court, Alan Gell had no evidence with him to help with the case. He pleaded guilty for first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit armed robbery(Alexandra Gross). The girls were filled with second degree murder because they were with Alan Gell. Alan was in jail for nine years at Bertie County. He was sentenced to death on March 3,
On the late evening of June 12th, 1994, a fellow Brentwood neighbor went to investigate why a nearby dog was constantly howling when they discovered the grisly murder scene(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The victims, 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson and 25-year-old Ronald Goldman, were violently stabbed to death with a knife in the walkway of Nicole’s home(Geis & Bienen, 2016). Nicole Brown Simpson was the
Criminality is still assumed to be a masculine characteristic and women lawbreakers are therefore observed to be either ‘not women’ or ‘not criminals’ (Worrall 1990, p. 31). Female offenders are hallmarked for tireless and inescapable coverage if they fit into the rewarding newsworthy categories of violent or sexual. It is always important to note the reason for overrepresentation of women criminals in the media. “Women who commit serious offences are judged to have transgressed two sets of laws: criminal laws and the laws of nature” (Jewkes 2011, p. 125). Such women are hence “doubly deviant and doubly damned” (Lloyd, 1995). When women commit very serious crimes, such as murder, they attract
Leanne Sarah Holland born 1st October 1978 was a 12-year-old girl from Goodna, Queensland, found murdered. Her body was discovered on Thursday, 26th September 1991 at 1.42 pm down a dirt track. The track was 8.9 kilometres from her Goodna home in nearby Redbank Plains.
" On July 29, 1994, seven year old Megan Kanka, from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was walking home after playing at a friends house. She had almost reached her front door when Jesse Timmendequas, 33, a landscaper who had lived across the street for a year invited her over to pet his new puppy ( Richard 1 )." " When Megan followed him inside, he led her to an upstairs bedroom, strangled her unconscious with his belt, raped her and then asphyxiated her to death with a plastic bag. Timmendequas then placed Megan’s body in a tool box, drove it in his pick-up truck to a near-by soccer field and dumped her body in some bushes ( Jerome 1 )." This, and the tragic murder of Amanda Wengert, was how the name was developed. But in my paper I did not discuss the murder and raping of Amanda Wengert.
This essay will look at how various forms of media examine female and child offenders, and how these same criminals can also be viewed as being victims. The media is able to shape the way the public perceive a certain criminal through aspects such as personal information, history of violence and appearance (Fries, 1820). Therefore, creating the opportunity to generate a media story in which the ideal criminal is involved. Included within the essay will be how the medias fixation with gendered and social norms can cause a female or child offender to be considered as being depraved. Also, this essay will demonstrate how today’s media supports the now discredited theory of criminologist, Cesare Lombroso, that asserted physical attributes
While most of the violent crimes that happens most are them are belongs to men, women have not been the wilting flowers promoted so heartily by Victorian adorers and (right or wrong) often evident in today's society. Before we get into detail about the fascinating phenomenon of the Black Widow, it is worth a brief overview of women's escalating role in the world of violent crime, particularly in the United States.
According to Lilly, Cullen, and Ball (232) Feminist theory has been on the back burner of modern criminology until the late 19th century. As with the other criminology theories there are many thoughts and ideas on why females commit crimes. In the beginning the theories seem to revolve around the victimization of the female gender. Then criminologist took a look at female delinquency, prostitution, and gender inequality in the criminal justice system. Lilly (233) wrote that Lombroso used physiological traits to determine what type of women would commit crime. Lombroso also argued that the women that committed the most crime were more masculine then the women who did not commit crime. He used physiological immobility, and passivity to make the argument. Lilly (235) also wrote that Sigmund Freud believed the reason women committed crime was because they has “penis envy”. Since women were physical different than men, women would become more aggressive trying to act like the male counterpart in order to fit in with the status quo.
The detectives investigate and find evidences that points towards AUSTIN, including a videotape of someone setting the explosive. The jacket matches Austin’s jacket. Austin is arrested. Later he’s convicted of killing his mother. Tessa is determined to provide he’s innocent. Her friend HUNTER SWAN (21) supports her.