James J. Bulger

Whitey Bulger On September 3rd, 1929, James Joseph Bulger Jr. was born in Everett, Massachusetts. He was born into a large Roman Catholic, Irish-American family with five other siblings. It was not until later, he found himself at home in South Boston-- a place he would later reign with a bloody fist. The Bulger family was one of the low income families that was eligible and selected to reside in the Old Harbor Village projects. This area of Boston was dominantly made up of Irish and Italian low

James “Whitey” Bulger I think we would all agree sixteen years is quite a long time. What if I were to tell you someone had been on the run from the law enforcement for that long before being caught? The name is James Joseph Bulger Jr. also known as Whitey Bulger. Whitey was one of the most notorious mob bosses in American history for his criminal reign in South Boston, Massachusetts. Whitey was a very violent criminal that had a rap sheet a mile long that included: murder, extortion, racketeering

James Joseph Bulger Jr. otherwise known as “Whitey” Bulger is an infamous murderer who escaped the police for sixteen years. His only known son died at the age of six. James Bulger has been accounted for nineteen murders whilst he has only to this day been proven of eleven of these murders. Bulger was almost called a mini mafia leader. He led a few people who killed for him. One of the people that Whitey was mostly acquainted with was a man named Kevin Weeks. Kevin Weeks was James’ right hand man

The gangster or mob film genre has captivated audiences for nearly one hundred years, dating back to the silent film era. Introduced through films such as The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) and Underworld (1927), the genre has become increasingly complex in its development, evidenced by the sophisticated narratives and advanced cinematographic techniques of more recent films such as Road to Perdition (2002) and The Departed (2006). This paper will serve to analyze only two of these brilliant works

Charismatic leaders only appear when there is a crisis for a society or group, and they become not only their leader, but their hero. For Post-World War 1 Germany, that hero was Adolf Hitler. As for South Boston, that hero was convicted felon, Whitey Bulger. Before Whitey rose to power, many residents of South Boston described it as “The

world. In this essay, moral panics will be looked at in detail with a specific interest in the case of James Bulger. There will too, be a focus on the influence the media,

Analysis of the Opening Section of the Television Documentary Children of Crime In the television documentary ‘Children of Crime’, made by the BBC, it shows us many of this country’s most vicious children being involved in offences such as murder. ‘Children of Crime’ is a series of programmes reporting on different children ranging from the 1960’s up until modern day. It shows us that crime is not a new craze amongst the children of today but has been around for many years

were exposed to, the effects of the media would have played huge part in what had happened. Children are easily influenced by the negatives of the media. It was argued that the similarities between the events of child’s play 3 and the murder of James Bulger were effectively non-existent, it was said that Jon Venables might have seen the film which could have corrupted and poisoned his mind leading him to commit such crime. “Young people are ‘saturated’, ‘hooked’ and ‘corrupted’: their impressionable

What is a discourse? Describe two competing discourses of childhood and suggest the ways that they can have an impact on children's lives. The concept of discourse is the key to understanding a social constructionist approach to childhood. A discourse is an independent set of interrelated ideas held by a particular ideology or worldview. The social constructionist approach tries to describe the different ways in which knowledge of children and childhoods are constructed. Different discourses of

and sometimes received the same punishment as adults. For many years, there were debates on if children before the age of 21 were responsible for their actions seeing as they aren’t fully capable of understanding their actions. This murder of Jamie Bulger created an uproar all over the world on children at such a young age know right from wrong and also violence. Backgrounds, and family upbringing and violence in the media had played a