Robert Pickton Case Study

Robert Soderbery was an enterprising entrepreneur who managed the public works department of a private business in Pittsburg, California. Pittsburg was known to have undergone a serious of identities over the years. Initially, Pittsburg was known to be an industrial city encompassed mostly of farms. Pittsburg essentially became a commercial ghost town during the ‘50s and it took recreating the city and building new developments to progress as a city. However, to every positive, there’s a negative. Although Pittsburg was progressing as a city, they were still struggling due to the 1978 tax initiative—Proposition 13—which affected many of Pittsburg’s revenue.

Richard Kuklinski was a convicted murderer and contract killer who was born on April 11 in 1935. Kuklinski claims to have killed over 200 people over the course of his “career” during 1949 to 1986. At first, he would simply kill people who annoyed him, got on his nerves, or who he ‘needed’ to kill. When the mob caught wind of a man who killed as frivolously as Kuklinski, they began to hire him out as a contract killer. He lived in New Jersey and New York and committed most of his crimes in that area. In 1988, he was caught and sentenced to life in prison -- he later died in prison in March of 2006

Harvey Robinson, then 19, is a serial killer who operated between 1992 and 1993, where he killed three women and attempted to kill a fourth. His victims were, in chronological order: Joan Burghardt, 29, Charlotte Schmoyer, 15, and Jessica Jean Fortney, 47. His fourth victim, Denise Sam-Cali, managed to survive the attack and escape. Robinson murdered Joan by bludgeoning her in her home, Charlotte was kidnapped and stabbed to death, and Jessica died from strangulation. His final victim, Denise, was beaten. Each of the four victims had been raped as well.

In World War II Hitler came to power. His group was the Nazis. They mistreated people who were different. Many people stood by and did nothing, but Sir Nicholas Winton made good choices and help.

In Hunt’s estimation, which she precludes with her own experience and knowledge taken from research within her own community—Vancouver’s downtown Eastside—there has been a significant uptick of missing Indigenous women since at least the early 1990s, “mainly women who were marked as ‘outsider’ by a society that shuns sex workers, substance users, the poor, and the homeless, among many others” (96). In the case of Pamela George, this was no different.

This case is an example of the feminist theory and of female oppression. Robert could have believed that since he was a male he was the more dominant sex and this could have led him to express his superiority towards women through the murders. This is an example of radical feminism. Radical feminism looks at the exploitation of women and their role in the patriarchy. Marxists feminism theory focuses on the unfair divide between men and women and how each are expected to have certain roles in society. Women are most likely expected to be stay at home moms where men are expected to have a higher income and have more serious jobs. Robert only attacked women that were sex workers or drug addicts. There must be a reason for this pattern and it could be that he was attacking women that were in a lower class then he was. It was just another way of making himself feel more powerful then the women. Roberts’s anger towards women could be because of his relationship with his mother when he was a child. She wasn’t always the most affectionate and supportive mother and the anger he felt towards his mother could be the reason he feels anger and aggression towards women. If he kept the feelings he had towards his mother locked up inside him that could be what brought him to the point of murdering all of these women. The feminism theory can shed some light on why Robert Pickton decided to murder these

Countless of different patients come to seek healthcare and advice for a variety of reasons including certain signs and symptoms they feel that their health is threatened by. It is a crucial skill that health practitioners have a working knowledge of different pathologies patients can present with to direct the patient appropriately towards the correct diagnosis and thus, prescribe the most effective treatment in return. Mr Smith is a 63-year-old male suffering from hypertension and diabetes for the last 20 years. He irregularly monitors blood pressure and blood glucose levels as well as inconsistently uses Minidiab and Tritace for treatment. He presents with shortness of breath worsening over the past five weeks as well as other multiple symptomologies. Throughout this case study, we will examine the pathophysiology of Mr Smith’s health concerns, clarify and interpret the physical examination outcomes and laboratory tests. Through the exams, we will then propose a number of possible and justified diagnoses and after that lead to further diagnostic tests suggested as a result of these interpretations.

"Responsible people have to be careful about making wild pronouncements about possible serial killers," Leyton says. "And when we are not sure if it is true, then it is inappropriate to throw people into a state of panic. Prostitution is a very dangerous profession and many of the people in it are wanderers and not well-connected to any conventional system of government controls or social services. So they can drift away from the system without being noticed for a very long time, even when nothing may have actually happened to them."

Arthur Shawcross is a man that committed his life to killing people. He was born on June 6, 1945 in Kittery, Maine. “Serial killer Arthur Shawcross was born on June 6, 1945, and died on November 10, 2008 while serving a life sentence for the murder of 11 women” (Arthur Shawcross 2015). Arthur is what is called a serial killer/murder. The term “serial murder” from our class notes means, “The killing of several victims in three or more separate incidents over time (separated by weeks or more)” (Miyuki 2017: Chapter 9, 27). Soon after Arthur was born, his family moved to Watertown, New York. Shawcross claims when he was a child, he was abused by his mother and the relationship he had with his father was not much better. Also, he claimed that this

First, the theory chosen for the social science discipline, psychology is psychosocial. The focus of the theory is how Robert Pickton became a serial killer due to the environment he grew up in and relationships. Pickton’s parents ran a meat business in Port Coquitlam and Pickton alongside his brother helped them. Pickton’s mother was tough and had the children work on a strict schedule. In addition, Pickton’s father had very little influence in his life, but his mother can be the key influence in why he murders women. Pickton was close to his mother and she also was a major authority figure in his life. Consequently, Pickton could have grown a hatred towards women due to his mother and is the reason he targets women. Enough hatred to ensure his victims suffer by raping and killing them Also, due to his mother making him work hard on the farm he had little to no childhood. Pickton did raise a calf and was very close to it, however, the calf was slaughtered. As a result, Pickton never forgot it and also said from CBC News, the incident made him realize life was fleeting. Additionally, Pickton is used to seeing things being killed and dying because he saw many animals being slaughtered when he was young. Death in his eyes has been normalized and is not an unusual occurrence. This is a key reason Pickton does not feel remorse for the killing of his victims because it is normal to him. Furthermore, Pickton was quiet and socially awkward, sometimes exhibiting unusual behaviour.

In determining, Robert Pickton's mental capacity during his crimes, his defense attorneys argued that he possessed a limited intelligence. This statement would differ from the prosecutions position, as they believed his IQ surpassed that of mental retardation. In all actuality, Pickton had spent many years in special education and only managed to finish parts of high school. Thus, affirming that he was by no means a wise man. However, without any kind of strong formal education, the simple-minded pig farmer was able avoid arrest, for one of Canada’s largest killing sprees to date. This is largely because Pickton's choice of victims, as well as the Vancouver police departments reluctance to investigate, aided in concealing his identity. Contrary to public belief, the behavior illustrated by Robert Pickton was not eccentric or unheard of, as when placed with the profile of a serial killer, he is an identical match. His history of social isolation, drug use, and record of violent offenses, are further commonalities in which serial killers share. Similarly to most serial killers, Pickton choose his victims based on their vulnerability. By deciding to murder easily available prostitutes, Pickton was targeting people that were likely to be the forgotten members of society. This strategical method of crime

But in Canada, any type of public communications for the purpose of having sex, in other words procuring in Section 213 of the Criminal Code of Canada, is against the prostitution law. If that’s not enough to ban the existence of pimps, the complex relationship between the pimp and the prostitute can turn possessive and abusive as time goes on. The pimp’s approach in stabilizing the relationship is by psychological intimidation, manipulation, long hours of starvation, any type of rape, severe beatings, small confinements, force them to take drugs, death threats towards the prostitute’s family, and etc. Although, the prostitutes had agreed to sexual services in order to support either themselves or fund their drug addiction, they are not doing this for the sake of pleasure but to earn fast money. In most cases, women are under the control of the pimp and most often could not defend themselves alone and must submit to the pimp’s wishes in order to survive. Pimps can be charged with an applicable offence that includes sexual assault, uttering threats, intimidation, and forcible confinement. A ‘missing people’ article dated back in April of 2000 reported a pimp named Barry Thomas Niedermier, 43, had something to do with 27 prostitutes that were missing in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a bad history with the law, once involving himself pimping a 14

When I started learning in Touro College, I didn’t know on which profession I wanted to focus. Therefore, I started asking my friends for advice. One said to be a special education teacher and the other friend I should be an accountant, but these jobs didn’t seem exciting for me. I wanted to enjoy my job and not work just for money. Then, a good friend of my mother’s suggested occupational therapy and she explained what the Occupational Therapist does, who the therapist works with, and it sounded interesting.

Murders were not unusual in the “east end” of London. Some historians thinks, there were dozen murders and a few say only five.

As we approach the midpoint of the semester, I find myself thinking about my expectations coming in as a fellow to this program and whether or not I have made any progress in fulfilling them. However, one of the biggest components I find myself lagging in is the student interaction component.