Serial Killers
Essays

Ethical treatment of prisoners is a complex question, involving the nature of the prison system in the U.S. and the nature of those incarcerated in it, as well as ethical obligations that individuals owe to society as well as those that society owes to those who are imprisoned. Deontological ethics might hold, for example, that those who have violated the law and the basic moral norms of society deserve to be punished but at the same time even those convicted and imprisoned have certain basic human rights. For example, they have the right to food, clothing, shelter and medical care, and cannot be tortured, abused or brutalized

Over thirty thousand structural fires are set annually at a cost of over three-quarters of a million dollars worth of damage and more than three hundred lives lost. Additionally over twenty thousand intentionally set…

Throughout the long history of humanity, many cultures have either sanctioned or ritualized the consumption of human flesh known as cannibalism. This grisly practice is of course banned today since it requires either…

It is difficult to understand the nature of a serial killer. The repetitive character of their murderous acts for no "justifiable" reason is a conundrum to most of us. Just what is justifiable?

Dangerousness refers to the likelihood that a mentally ill person, or criminal will participate in an act that harms themselves or others. The prediction of the dangerousness of mentally ill patients is one of the key…

Extreme pathologically antisocial and criminal behavior is so shocking that those who study human behavior and deviance have always theorized about plausible explanations for how the human mind can become so dangerously…

"Psychopath" is a colloquial term that is often used in popular parlance and entertainment media to describe extremely deviant social behavior. It is particularly often associated with notoriously depraved acts of…

¶ … personalities and motivations of murderers who have been the subjects of forensic psychology as a tool to law enforcement. While this paper touches on some of the aspects of the individuals and the information…

¶ … Collective Cultural Shadow and Confrontation with the Archetypal

This is a four-page paper describing and illustrating the concept of the hero. Using references throughout the canon of literature, the paper asserts that heroes are human with flaws. Heroes overcome obstacles including those that are internal such as fear or anger. Moreover, heroes often have to act alone. Heroes are also true to themselves in spite of the challenges they encounter.