Assignment about Define Criminology

1Running head: CRIMINOLOGY
Criminology
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Criminology (Assignment 3)
Part A: Short Answer
1. Identifying Behavior of Serial Killer through Sociologically
The advantages of knowing serial killers sociologically are more as compared to
doing so biologically or psychologically. The sociology usually takes interest in explaining
the behaviors of human in the varied aspects of the society. Thus, the behavior of serial
killers can be well-explained through sociology or in a better way because it distinguishes the
people in terms of institution, association, and groups. It understands the behavior of serial
killers in-depth, which further helps to identify the reason for being a serial killer. After
evaluating the criminal behavior and deviant by sociology, and then applying it to the serial
murder, they fail to provide a clear-cut and simple explanation for identifying the motive of a
serial killer. The key advantage of considering the explanation of sociology for serial murder
is that they examine the behavior by adopting three theories, which explores all the behaviors
of a serial killer. Thus, this makes a difference in examining the behavior of sociology (Lee &
Choi, 2014).
4. Abusive Relationships
It has always been a query for those people, who have not gone through the abusive
relationship of ‘why do some people stay in abusive relationships?’ However, there are
various reasons behind, people facing the wraths of an abusive relationship, such as they may
stay due to conflicting emotions. For instance, they may stay because they think that being
abused in a relationship is normal or they may stay due to love, fear, low self-esteem,
embarrassment, or fear of being left out. Another reason could be the pressure, as the victims
can go through peer or social pressure, or might be pregnant so that they are not able to break
the relationship. Rather they may be victimized by the religious or cultural pressure. The
other reasons include disability, and financial crisis, as they do not have any other place to

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go, or get disturbed by the higher authorities or adults (National Domestic Violence Hotline,
2017).
Part B: Short Essay
Common Factors Explaining the Violence or the Dissimilar Situations
In day-to-day life, people (mostly women and children) are victimized by several instances of
violence and abuses within the private, family or domestic sphere. However, these
occurrences of violence within a relationship due to controlling the partner and not sharing
equal responsibilities and rights between the partners are termed as domestic violence. This
feature of domestic violence is different from crime but, there also exists other characteristics
in domestic violence, which are common with respect to family violence, such as child-to-
parent violence or child-to-mother violence, child sexual abuse, elder abuse or sibling
violence, and stalking, which are occurred in domestic sphere or family, or in private life.
Since these kinds of violence and abuses are shared as crimes and will have prosecutes in
court. However, domestic violence cannot be considered as only the outcomes of substance
abuse, illness, stress, genetics, relationship problem or victim’s behavior. Thus, domestic
violence and its other features need to be prosecuted along with other crime (Arizona
Coalition To End Sexual and Domestic Violence, 2006).
In the year of 2000, ‘The Missouri General Assembly’ ascertained that different
crimes for the offenders, which are divided under three degrees, which also includes different
sets of punishment as per the degree. The first degree was defined under the section 455.010,
RSMo, which defines that “a person commits the crime of domestic assault in the first degree
if he or she attempts to kill or knowingly causes or attempts to cause serious physical injury
to a family or household member or an adult who is or has been in a continuing social
relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the actor” (Arizona Coalition To End
Sexual and Domestic Violence, 37). In such case, the offender gets the punishment of 10 or