select ONE offender from the following to write a case study on, please choose whichever one you feel as though you would write better about:
Anthony Sowell – The Cleveland Strangler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Sowell
Ted Bundy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Bundy
Dennis Rader – The BTK Killer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader
Aileen Wuornos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos
Peter Sutcliffe – The Yorkshire Ripper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sutcliffe
Students are recommended to start with the relevant lecture reading lists, before searching academic (Psych-info; JSTOR; Web of Knowledge, etc) and newspaper/media (Lexus/Nexus) databases to locate other relevant material. The aim of this piece of work is for the student to present a case analysis of their chosen offender, contextualized with material and content from across the module. Hence, the case study should be presented as an essay (complete with full references and written in an academic style) containing the following information:
A social, cultural and historical contextualization of the offender and their offences:
What was society was like at the time they committed their offenses? How might this social, cultural and historical context link into their offenses? What impact did their offending have on society at the time? What has been the lasting impact of their offending, if any?
Sample Solution
