The article, "Woman Wanted in Shooting Death of Her 90-Year-Old Mother May Be in L.A., Police Say" written by Veronica Rocha, was published in the Los Angeles Times on March 18, 2016. The suspect, Alicia "Lisa" Osibin, a Bay Area woman killed her 90- year-old mother and disposing of her body in a trash can is wanted by the authorities. Osibin is believed to be in the Los Angeles and possibly could have changed her name and appearance. According to the El Cerrito police, Osibin is approximately 5 feet 8 and a heavy set woman who could have altered her appearance to "a more masculine look." She is considered "armed and dangerous" and may be using the name of A. Callico or Alex Callico. On November 27, 2015, the El Cerrito police received information about the disappearance of Mary Osibin. Neighbors stated …show more content…
According to Bandura 's social learning theory, people are not born with the ability to act violently, however, it is learned through the "process of behavior modeling and observation" through several outlets such as family interactions or mass media. There 's a strong correlation between an early childhood aggression and an adolescent aggression. Osibin could possibly have been exposed to violence as a child and have a strained relationship with her mother growing up. Alicia Osibin may have suffered from poor role models which "produces imitation and instigation of socially undesirable behaviors," such as violent acts. Furthermore, the psychodynamic theory proposed that "criminals are frustrated and aggravated" due to negative events in their childhood which affect the individual 's unconscious. Osibin may have suffered from oppositional defiant disorder because she can easily have lost her temper and had an argument with her mother before deciding to shoot her in the head. Both the social learning theory and the psychodynamic theory emphasized that Alicia Osibin could have been exposed to early childhood aggression that resulted in an oppositional defiant
An emergency call comes in at 9:45 am from Doug Greene. He discloses that his neighbor and recently ended love interest, Anna Garcia, a well developed thirty-eight-year-old hispanic has been skipping routinely morning walks and that the last time he saw her was at 6:30 am on August 13th. Since her dogs were unusually barking, it sparked concern in Greene. The call brought police to Garcia’s home who found her dead lying face down on her entry hallway at 9:56 am. It is 10:20 am on August 14th when police are securing the crime scene.
On 7/9/15 worker made an unannounced visit to the residence of Ms. Bernice Connell, for the purpose of making first victim contact. Ms. Kayley McKinnon, granddaughter-in-law of Ms. Connell greeted worker at the door and showed worker to Ms. Connell 's room. The room was cluttered but did not present with an odor. Ms. Connell was lying in bed watching TV, she was appropriately dressed with good personal hygiene. Ms. Connell stated she had lived with her son, Earnest McKinnon, and daughter-in-law, Arlinda McKinnon, for two years.
One of the culprits, Alex Garcia, was Anna’s former husband. He and Anna went through a nasty divorce the year before. Not long afterwards, Alex remarried a much younger woman and were expecting a baby. Since he needed money, he went to Anna’s home to discuss some paperwork’s, and that was the last time he saw her. Another person of interest was Doug Greene, Anna’s neighbor, and a friend who called the police.
(SC4) After that short spree, Woodfield traveled to southern Orgeron on January 26 and 29 and committed robberies in Eugene, Medford, and Grant Pass. Two women had also been assaulted by the robber (Randall Woodfield). A couple of days went by and Woodfield struck again. On February 3 in Mountain Gate, California, a mother and her daughter were found, both shot in the head and the daughter had been sexually assaulted. The mother’s name was Donna Eckard.
Mrs. Gutierrez, Perez’s mother, blames the doctor who declared her daughter dead too quickly that made them bury her daughter alive. “I thought I was going to get my daughter back," Mrs. Gutierrez told the local
Police say that she has been raped and stabbed. About a year later on November 30, 1985, the police brought in an 18 year old boy named Christopher Abernathy for an interrogation. An acquaintance of him named, Allan Dennis told the police
Additionally, how violent someone is also has to do with how they are raised and the environment they grow up in. People’s genetics and physical characteristics may play a role in making them at higher risk for becoming criminals, but I certainly do not believe they are the primary cause in a person’s violent nature. Men are expected to be more aggressive than women, and to fit in, they become more aggressive. The documentary referred to this phenomenon as gender policing.
Precious’s life is horrible and, if applying the theory to her life, Precious would walk in the steps of her mother, Mary. Since usually our greatest influence are our parents, we often intimate what we see from their actions. “Such theories assume that people have stable modes of response which predetermine the way they will act in relation to any particular situation or object and that, when they come in contact with the given object or situation, they act in the way in which their makeup predisposes them” (Becker Marijuana Smoker ). Someone being violent would most likely lead the viewer of this violence to become violent as well. A person would be imitating the deviant behavior and applying it normally to their life.
In January 2016, the FBI and local police department began to investigate a property belonging to the family of Justin Wagers, a registered sex offender, who police believe may have been involved in Lauren’s disappearance. The house, located in the 2900 block of Old Morgantown Road in Martinsville, Indiana, was searched by officers with cadaver dogs. The dogs got a “hit” on the site, which caused a team of forensic investigators to dig up parts of the property in search of evidence related to Lauren’s disappearance, but no definitive evidence was
There are several Psychological theories that could contribute a path to delinquency. They include psychodynamic theory, the attachment theory, the moral development theory and the behavioral theory just to name a few. In researching information on Eric Smith, I believe he had several underlying issues that contributed to his violent senseless crime against a helpless little boy. I feel the lack of moral development was a huge factor that caused this youth to explode. Eric Smith was 13 years old, in 1993, when he murdered Derrick Robie, a 4-year-old little boy.
When questioned about Wilson’s whereabouts, Graham could not provide a definite answer (Canedy, 2002). Wilson’s story also received local coverage but it did not receive any national attention. In another case from Florida, Kamiyah Mobley or Alexis Kelli Manigo, was kidnapped from a Jacksonville, Florida hospital in 1998 by a woman pretending to be a nurse (Hanna, 2017). It was not until Mobley was reunited with her biological parents, eighteen years later in 2017, that she received national media attention. Although these victims did receive local media coverage, for the most part they did not receive the national coverage like the Caucasian
This theory clearly rules out the effect of inherited or innate factors, and the last is the cognitive theory, which is based on how the perception of an individual is manifested into affecting his or her potential and capability to commit a crime. (Psychological theories of crime) Relating these theories to the case under study, it’s clear that the behaviour can be traced most times to faulty relationships in the family during the first years of
Social learning theory states that an individual will model behaviors that one has been exposed to as a child (Chibucos, Leite, & Weis, 2005). As a child, it is through observation and imitating other people that we learn our behaviors and what is acceptable or normal behaviors. Violence is said to be a learned behavior which can be learned directly or indirectly through family members, friends, partners, etc. These learned behaviors are reinforced in childhood and can continue into adulthood through a term called operant conditioning. Bandura (1973) mentions that these behaviors that continue into adulthood typically act as a coping response to stress or as a method of conflict resolution.
Several theories declare the connection between child abuse and crime. One of the earliest theories was originated by Sigmund Freud in 1896. Freud 's Repressed Memories theory shows that abusive memories are indirectly stored in the victim 's subconscious. In other words, a subject blocks out painful or traumatic experiences. This could lead to hysteria, and other complications in adulthood (Richmond).
Aggression is a spoken or physical behavior that causes intentional harm to a person. There are many different theories that argue what the cause of aggression is but this can be divided into two major types: people who think that aggression is inborn and those that view it as a learning behavior. The Social cognitive theory states that we learn behaviors through observation and modeling and this could be implied that we learn aggressive behaviors through observing and imitating others. The Social Cognitive theory claims that people learn behaviors from observation, modeling, and motivation such as positive reinforcement. Psychologists mention that people learn behaviors by imitating models through observational learning; as well as through