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    Charles Manson and The Tate-LaBianca Murders Nicole Nichols LEG-110 D 10/30/10 Instructor Devito [pic] [pic] [pic] Susan Atkins Leslie Van Houten [pic] [pic] Patricia Krenwinkel Charles “Tex” Watson On August 9‚ 1969 the seven innocent victims of the Tate-LaBianca murders were senselessly slain by a vicious cult and their leader

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    The Comparisons of Charles Manson to Transcendental Philosophy Charles Manson and various members of his "family" brutally killed several people from the Tate and LaBianca family on two separate occasions . The purposes of these killings are misunderstood by today’s society‚ when ignoring Manson’s philosophy. Although Manson never killed anyone‚ he went to prison in 1969 for masterminding the operation. Today’s society has labeled Charles Manson as a mass-murderer who had no purpose through

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    on. Although Charles Manson and his cult were committing crimes before the 60’s‚ this is when the most infamous murder occurred. Manson’s cult‚ The Family‚ murdered actress Sharon Tate‚ who was nearly nine months pregnant‚ and her four friends. Though‚ Manson wasn’t personally there when the crime happened‚ he sent them to do it. He even told them to make it as gruesome as possible. They stabbed each victim multiple times and wrote sayings on the wall in their blood. this is why "Manson has become

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    Charles Manson: Serial Murderer? Serial Killers Does the definition of a serial murderer only encompass one who commits the act or is the definition able to be enlarged to include one who leads others to commit murder? A jury in 1971 decided that‚ yes a person can lead others to commit heinous murders and be labeled a serial killer. Such person is Charles Manson. A serial murderer according to Steve Egger is a murderer that commits two or more murders for reasons that differ from

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    Charles Manson was a cult leader who used psychedelic drugs to coax his followers which he called his family into murdering several famous people. He conducted his murders in the late 60’s and in 1971 Rejected by his mother he turned it off of crime at a young age by the age of 32 he had spent over half of his life in prison 17 years exactly. Once he was released on March 21st 1967 he began his journey across America from Ohio to San Francisco. In San Francisco is where he built his Ranch where

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    CHARLES MANSON BY: JACOB A. BOOKOUT Charles Manson is a convicted serial killer who has become an icon of evil. In the late 1960’s‚ Manson founded a hippie cult group known as “the Family” whom he manipulated into brutally killing others on his behalf. Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati‚ Ohio to 16 year-old Kathleen Maddox. Kathleen had run away from home at the age of 15 and spent the next few decades drinking too much‚ with periods of time spend in jail. Since his mother couldn’t take

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    determine how our minds are in regards to right and wrong. Charles Manson lived a terrible child hood‚ and no child should have to go through what he went through. This does not excuse what we do wrong‚ morally or unlawfully in our adult years‚ but can have a terrible impact on the mind. The schools for crime causation will help to try to understand Charles Manson‚ his childhood‚ adult live‚ and life of crime. Charles Manson Charles Manson was not any ordinary man. He did not have a happy child

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    Theory Summary Labeling theory proposes that a deviant label given to a person by society can be given after a person commits a crime and proceeds to be active in delinquent activities because of the label or the label brought onto that person can cause them to commit the crime the label describes (Akers‚ Sellers‚ & Jennings‚ 2017). In 1951‚ Edwin M. Lemert created the terms primary and secondary deviance. Primary deviance is meant to be before the label is given to a person and seems to be unorganized

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    the ability and competency of our government (Lilly‚ Cullen‚ & Ball‚ 2015). With this lack of confidence and trust‚ citizens began to present the ideas of labeling theorist by blaming the state for the crime problem (Lilly et al.‚ 2015). Labeling theorist suggested that the criminal justice system‚ particularly state intervention‚ “through labeling and reacting to offenders as “criminal” or “ex-felons” are responsible for creating career criminals” (Lilly‚ 2015‚ p.149). This school of thought rejects

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    INTRODUCTION Labeling theory is the theory of how the self-identity and behaviour of individuals maybe determined or influence by the terms used to describe or classify them. It holds that deviance is not inherent to an act‚ but instead focuses on the tendency of majorities to negatively label minorities of those seen as deviant from a standard norms. Labeling theory is the view of deviance according to which being labeled as a deviant lead a person to engage in deviant behaviour (Howard Becker

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