Case Study On Crime Case Of Tad Bundy
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Case Study Psychology of crime
Case of Tad Bundy: A definition to the heartless EvilTad, full name Ted Robert, born in year 1946 on November24th. Ted a very popularstudent throughout his primary school, but things did not remined same when he reached to highschool. He did no get that much attention in his high school days and he started to have troubleleading to lower academic progress, low self esteem and he developed an issue of social anxietyto high level. Ted then went to different colleges and he altered the degrees in his primaryschooling years. By the year 1974, Tad started to assault young college female students. Thiscontinues for some time and lead Ted to committed to murder while he continued to rape assault,and murder different females for long time. Ted was given death sentenced in 1989 where hewas given the capital punishment through electric chair. Till this that, Ted is still considered tobe the greatest dishonored criminal of the 20th century by its end.In the present report different topics are discussed related with crime and criminalpsychology. First of all, the trait theory is discussed. Secondly, Eysenck’s three factor model andpersonality theories are defined and discussed in detail. In the Eysenck’s three there is inclusionneuroticism extraversion and psychoticism. Thirdly, observed investigation is presented in thisreport which have examined that Eysenck’s Factor model has presented an extensive traitapproach in understanding both antisocial and criminal behavior of a person involve inoutrageous crime. In the essay the Eysenck’s Three factor model have established application tothe characters of Tad Bundy with relating them to the crime committed by him. With applicationof this model has been found out the Ted was proven to have the traits in line of extraversion,psychoticism and neuroticism. Lastly, the identification of weaknesses is done regarding theapplication and analysis of trait theory in the given case of Ted Bundy. Another, limitationdiscussed in this essay is related with other theories which could have been used regardingdetection of trait of Ted. Other theories are biobehavioral, moral development theories andsocial learning evolutionary (Heyen, 2019).Ted, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946 on November24th. “Ted” Robert Bundywas a well known American rapist and serial Killer, who was the most notorious criminal of the20th century. The biological mother of Ted was Eleanor Louise Cowell and the father bringunknown in order to avoid dishonour to his family. Ted was raised by his grandparents as theirown son while her mother was introduced to others as his sister. He went to a difficult childhoodas compared to other children. Ted never in his childhood never liked his grandfather, as he had
an interest in pornography and an instable temper which he used to take out on Ted and Eleanor,Ted’s biological mother. Moreover, Ted did not share a close connection and relation even withhis mother Eleanor and as he grew older, he became mature and developed negative feelingstowards his mother and how she kept lying to him and ruined his childhood. Ted also becamevery curious about knowing his biological father and upon failing to understand, it furtheraffected his mental health and made him a negative person. When going to primary and highschool he was greatly influenced by his step-father despite the fact that he has never seen him inreal life(Williams, 2019). The primary school life of Ted was in contrast with his high school lifeas during his primary school days Ted came across as an extremely confident and happy personwith excellent academic scores but as he grew older and entered high school there was a loss ofself-confidence, anxiety issues and unhappiness which means that Ted started to become an anti-social element and that reflected in his personality. Having no friends in high school alsoaffected his mental health and social behaviour. Ted’s entry into university transformed him as aperson and all the positive emotions died the day he took admission into the university. Tedgraduated in the year 1965 and further got admitted into University of Puget Sound and later onhe transferred into University of Washington.to study Chinese. In the year 1967, Ted gotromantically involves with his university classmate called Stephanie Brooks. Soon he droppedout from the university and then worked at various minimum wage jobs and later on alsovolunteered in the election campaign of Nelson Rockefeller. Soon after that Stephanie ended herrelationship because she thought of Ted as an immature, childish and a person who lacked self-confidence. Soon after the breakup, Ted identified that the woman he assumed to be the sisteractually turned out to be his mother which further affected his mental health and broke his trusteven more. Later on, Ted started seeing Elizabeth Kloenpfr and ironically she was one of thefour people who reported that Ted was a suspect in the Pacific Northwest murder. Ted wasalways a studious kid and in the year 1973, he got admitted into the University of Puget SoundLaw School however, he stopped attending classes after few weeks of attendance and this iswhere the news of disappearance of women started. Ted became a subject of local news andbecause of that he found a place to hide somewhere outside the town in order to protect hisidentity (Simon, 2015).The officially recorded crime of Ted was recorded in the year 1974, which involved anassault on an 18 year old girl called Karen Sparks who was a student and dancer in the
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