William Pickton Anthropology

After reading the article in assignment one, complete the following questions. 1. Analyse the doings of William Pickton use the three different social science perspectives. Choose one theory from psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Using each perspective, write a one page analysis of the behaviour of William Pickton. Write a perspective for each social theory (three pages in total). 2. Write a hypothesis to research a serial executeer utilise the following social science theories Psychoanalysis, Functionalism, and Feminism.For example, a Marxist could look at the economic inequalities as a means of promoting a mental picture of helplessness. This helpless feeling could promote feelings of anger against anyone who possesses any means of production, and has control of his/her life. Lashing out against a community that is capable of supporting itself is a means of gaining power. Millers job is in the service industry and does non involve the direct production of goods. Not c ontrolling the means of production obligates him to sell his skill. 3. INDEPTH PICKTON The missing women of VancouverCBC News Online Updated Aug. 10, 2006 4. After investigators spend 18 months excavating his sort Coquitlam farm, Robert William Pickton attendd 15 murder charges in Vancouvers missing women fiber in 2002. In May 2005, Crown attorneys added 12 more prototypal-degree murder charges against Pickton, bringing the grim total to 27. One of those charges was eventually dropped in March 2006, after a judge ruled Pickton could not be tried for killing an unidentified victim. In July 2003, B. C. provincial court judge David Stone ruled there was enough evidence to take Pickton to trial.This came after an extensive six-month-long prior hearing. nevertheless in June 2004, lawyers working on the case said Picktons trial wont start until spring 2005 at the earliest. In December 2004, Picktons defence team asked for an different insure to give them time to examine DNA ev idence. The trial date was further delayed when prosecutors added the 12 excess charges in May 2005. Picktons trial didnt start until new-fangled January 2006. The voir dire phase of the trial, in which lawyers argue over what evidence will be admissible, is expected to last several months on its own.Reporters are not allowed to discover material presented during voir dire because it may be ruled inadmissible. However, Crown prosecutors and Picktons lawyers agreed they can start putting evidence to a jury in January 2007. control board selection is scheduled for December 2006. Its expected 3,500 people will be called for jury duty, up substantially from an average of about 500 in other murder cases. And to lessen the burden on the jurors, a B. C. judge ruled that Picktons trial will be divided into two parts. He will first be tried on six counts of murder.Justice James Williams said prosecutors can still seek a separate trial for the remaining 20 victims. He said severing the cou nts maximizes the chances that the case will proceed properly without a mistrial. And, he added, the evidence in these six cases the alleged murders of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey ? was materially different than the others. The case against Robert Pickton Rebecca Guno, a drug addict and prostitute, vanished from Vancouvers downtown eastside in June 1983.Her name was the first of 61 that would eventually be placed on the list of women to vaporize mysteriously from the drug-infested area over the two decades that followed. It wasnt until 19 years later, early in 2002, that charges were laid in any of the cases. The charges came not long after law of nature focused their efforts on a farm in Port Coquitlam, outside Vancouver. Dozens of officers scoured the farm in search of evidence. Within months, the owner of that farm, 53-year-old Robert William Pickton, would face seven murder charges.In July 2002, police made a pl ea for the publics help in locating nine more missing women, and said that if they cannot be found, their call will be added to the list of 54 other women who are missing. In September 2002, Pickton was charged with four more murders. One month later, four additional charges were added, bringing the total to 15. On January 9, 2003, days before Picktons pretrial hearings began, traces of another missing wo small-arm were found on the pig farm. Police told the womans mother that they did not want to lay any more charges until the pretrial started, fearing it would delay the case.Picktons preliminary hearing, which began January 13, 2003, was winding down on July 20 when police expanded their investigation to accommodate a roadside marsh in Mission, B. C. RCMP said the new search, to involve 52 anthropologists and two soil sifters, was prompted by findings made by searchers at the Port Coquitlam farm. A publication ban was placed on the pre-trial hearing to ensure information was not broadcast to potential jurors before the case is brought to trial. Nonetheless, evidence from the preliminary hearing was reported in newspapers, broadcasts and Web sites in the U.S something Picktons lawyer was afraid of. Our concern all along is that we cannot control that, said Peter Ritchie. And so were going away to extradite to follow that to see what has been published. The Pickton case is now the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history (Clifford Olson pleaded guilty in 1982 to killing 11 children in B. C. ). Families of the missing women have accused Vancouver police of mishandling the investigation from the beginning by ignoring evidence that a serial killer was at work.The RCMP became involved in 2001. The families also say police neglected the cases because many of the women were prostitutes and drug addicts. It wasnt until August of 2001 that Vancouver police began hinting that a serial killer could be responsible for the disappearance of the missing women. At the time 31 women had vanished, but four had been accounted for and two of those were confirmed dead. Dr. Elliott Leyton, an anthropology professor at Memorial University in St.Johns, Newfoundland, who wrote a book on serial killers called Hunting Humans, says that police are rightly reluctant to identify serial murders because public panic often follows. Responsible people have to be wide-awake 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 affirm 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 presidential term 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. 5. Leyton argues that it may be irresponsible to assume that a serial killer ma y be at work in Vancouver. The RCMP task force has repeatedly said that it cannot speak about the ongoing investigation and only concedes that a serial killer may be involved. But Leyton admits that when you have a minute of people missing from a particular social type you have to ask questions.The first indication that there was a significant number of prostitutes missing as far back as 1978 came to public attention in July of 1999, when the Vancouver Police and the Provinces Attorney General published a poster crack a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people involved in the disappearances. Even the popular U. S. TV weapons platform Americas Most Wanted aired a segment on the missing prostitutes, but few leads surfaced. In the spring of 1999, two Vancouver detectives teamed up with two RCMP detectives to examine the file pertaining to the 31 missing women.In August of that year police began investigating an account by a wom an, not a prostitute, who said that a man snatched her from the stairwell of a hotel in Vancouvers downtown eastside. The woman jumped from her captors moving vehicle to escape. 6. Accusations that police havent done enough reached a fever pitch when former detective and geographical profiler Kim Rossmo claimed he told police that a serial killer was at work in the Vancouver area and was ignored. Rossmo said that disappearances from the neighborhood were normal, but that the number of incidents was abnormally high up between 1995 and 1998.Rossmo, who sued the Vancouver department for wrongful dismissal when they failed to renew his contract, claimed that a single predator was responsible for killing prostitutes in downtown Vancouver. The Vancouver department dismissed his claims as sour grapes. Leyton says that the difficulty in assembling a case is that these kinds of killers typically prey on strangers, so it becomes much more difficult for police to subscribe the connections r equired to confirm the presence of a serial killer. 7. Article reprinted with permission from the CBC.