I found it very interesting in the article “ Empire of Death and Plague of Civic Violence”, that Bundy was not prosecuted for the murders he committed. He was pardon from it because they believed it was due to the war that he murdered all the people. This article ties into “From Saigon to Baghdad” because research has shown that a large majority of serial killers were Caucasian. This makes matter interesting because I believe a large majority of the men that were prosecuted were not all war veterans. As we discussed in class, when a white male is guilty of any type of crime, them they are classified as mentally disturbed but when it is committed by an ethnic group then it is then believed that this is the type of behavior that is expected from someone of this group. In recent events such as Newtown massacre and Aurora shooting, the media reported that the cause of this event was due to the upbringing of the individual and blamed the cause of this more on the environment the individual was brought up in. Other times when crimes are committed by any minority group then they are viewed as it is in there genetic makeup to behave this way. Also in the article, “ Empire of Death and Plague of Civic Violence” it was very disheartening that the police brought the young Laotian man back to the apartment because they referred to it as a “Lover’s quarrel.” It makes you start to think that if the situation was changed and the young boy was Caucasian , would the police men have taken the initiative to investigate more to what was going on behind the apartment door. If they would have had the same considerate for the young Laotian boy, then a life could have been saved rather than sacrificed because of the carelessness the officer showed.
Is there a high correlation between Caucasians male and war veterans being serial killers?
Week 5
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