measuring and understanding violence

1. evaluate this case study

Aileen Wuornos was born in 1959. Her mother married her father when she was 15. Wuornos’s parents divorced within 2 years of the troubled marriage, before Aileen was born. Her biological father was a convicted child molester and sociopath who was strangled in prison. Her mother was unwilling to care for her children, resulting in Aileen and her brother being adopted by their maternal grandparents. Her grandmother drank heavily and was strict with the children; her grandfather physically and sexually abused Aileen as a child. Reportedly, she was often whipped with a belt by her grandfather. Her grandparents raised her and her brother with their own children. They did not reveal that they were, in fact, the children’s grandparents. At the age of 12, Aileen and her brother discovered that their grandparents were not their biological parents. When they discovered their true parentage, they became more incorrigible. Aileen claimed to have had sex with multiple partners, including her own brother, at a young age. Aileen became pregnant at the age of 14. The father was unknown. Upon giving birth, the baby was put up for adoption; she was banished from her grandparents’ home and disowned by the small community in which she lived. Aileen subsequently dropped out of school, left the area, and took up hitchhiking and prostitution. In 1974, she was jailed for drunk driving and firing a pistol from a moving vehicle. In 1976, Wuornos hitchhiked to Florida, where she met a 76-year-old yacht club president. They married that same year. However, Wuornos continually involved herself in confrontations at the local bar and was eventually sent to jail for assault. She also hit her elderly husband with his own cane, leading him to get a restraining order against her. She returned to prostitution and eventually murdered seven men she met while hitchhiking and soliciting truck drivers at truck stops. In 1992, Aileen was executed for the murders in Florida.

2. include these topics in the essay, in an essay format.

Be able to explain the meaning of violent crime? Learn about reported and unreported crime? Understand the impact of violent crime? Learn about the fear of crime? Become familiar with some general reasons for violent behavior? Understand the dynamics of violence?

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