scholarly journals Was Jack the Ripper a Slaughterman? Human-Animal Violence and the World’s Most Infamous Serial Killer

Animals ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Andrew Knight ◽  
Katherine Watson
Keyword(s):  
Serial Killer ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Animal Violence ◽  
Jack The Ripper

Serial Killers

2014 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Paul Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
British Cinema ◽  
Serial Killing ◽  
Jack The Ripper

This chapter assesses the British serial killer cinema. British cinema has been noticeably reticent about depicting its serial killers. Aside from Jack the Ripper, who has appeared in many films since the 1920s, British killers are not nearly as ubiquitous as their Hollywood counterparts and where they are depicted they are often allied more to realism than horror. Like all areas of the crime film, British serial-killer cinema is inextricably linked to Hollywood; however, it also strives to distance itself, drawing on quintessentially British histories, images, and texts. The chapter looks at three films where serial killing is the main thrust of the narrative: Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger (1927), Richard Fleischer's 10 Rillington Place (1971), and John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986).

History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-255
Author(s):  
J. E. Toews
Keyword(s):  
Human Animal ◽  
Animal Violence

Serial Killing and Representation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip L. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Serial Murder ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Serial Killing ◽  
True Crime ◽  
Jack The Ripper

Serial killing is an age-old problem, though it was not popularly known by that name until the 1980s. It took the rise of mass media and the mechanisms of mass production to create the conditions for the rise of serial murder in the modern world. The mass media representation of a series of murders arguably dates back to the notoriety accorded to the so-called Jack the Ripper killings of prostitutes in London in the autumn of 1888. The Ripper murders stand at a particular nexus in the representation of true crime, where fact and legend immediately fused in popular media to create a terrifying new modern, urban mythology of a preternaturally cunning human super-predator: one who strikes from the shadows to commit ghastly murder with impunity and then retreats back into that darkness until the next atrocity. Since the days of Jack the Ripper, a ghoulish pantheon of other serial killers has captivated the public imagination through representation in media: the Zodiac Killer, David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy Jr., Henry Lee Lucas, Richard Ramirez, and Jeffrey Dahmer, just to name a few. However, the term “serial killer” did not enter the American popular vocabulary until the 1980s, so in another sense, the true representation of what we now know as serial killing could not begin until it had this latest, proper name. In tandem, as cultural consciousness of serial murder expanded, fictional serial killers proliferated the media landscape: Patrick Bateman, Norman Bates, Francis Dolarhyde, Lou Ford, Jame Gumb, Mickey and Mallory Knox, Leatherface, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Dexter Morgan, Tom Ripley, and a host of others. Serial killers as they exist in the popular imagination are media constructs rooted in sociological/criminological/psychological realities. These constructs originate from collective fears or anxieties specific to a particular time and place, which also means as times and the cultural zeitgeist change, the serial killer as a character epitomizing human evil is endlessly reinvented for new audiences in popular media.

Embodied Violence Towards Nonhuman Animals in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 679-694
Author(s):  
Valerie L. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Agnes Grey ◽  
Animal Violence

Abstract Aware of her pupil’s plans to torture and kill a nest of birds, and with no authority to stop him based on her class, gender, and professional positions, the governess-heroine of Anne Brontë’s (2010/1847) Agnes Grey kills the nonhuman animals to keep them from needless suffering. Building on Brontë scholarship as well as animal studies understandings of violence and embodiment, this article considers expectations that Victorian sympathy will be a simplistic and pretty play on reader emotions to argue that nineteenth-century sympathetic feeling was more theoretically and ethically complex than we might imagine. Agnes Grey demonstrates how human-animal violence was thought to be an acceptable expression of middle- and upper-class masculinity, while proper women were expected to be complicit with this treatment of nonhumans. By looking at the close relationship between wanton and merciful embodied violence, the article shows how grotesque Victorian human-animal sympathy could be.

How Did the Case of Jack the Ripper help the Metropolitan Police and Forensic Science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra White
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Science ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Metropolitan Police ◽  
History Of ◽  
Jack The Ripper

This study will examine the links between the historical case of Jack the Ripper, the history of forensic science, and the advancement of policing for the Metropolitan Police and forensic in Victorian Britain. Ripper’s crimes were committed in a ‘pre-forensic science’ period, when there were no fingerprints, DNA, or crime scene investigation units to help Detectives capture sophisticated criminals, but through this case forensic science and the Metropolitan Police Force would develop into a more modern form of policing. Jack the Ripper can be considered the prototype of the definition of a serial killer, and his crimes were of a nature that police had little experience with, which meant the police force would have to develop new techniques in criminal investigation. This study will examine the early history of the Metropolitan Police, how the young police force—less than sixty years old by the first murder of Jack the Ripper—was organized, the tools available for investigating murders, how the case of Jack the Ripper led to advancements in criminal investigation and how these new techniques were used to solve other crimes. The Metropolitan Police and British pathologists—such as Dr. Bernard Spilsbury— developed new ways of catching criminals because of the Jack the Ripper case, such as crime scene preservation, profiling and the use of photography to capture crime scenes that would be used to solve the case of Dr. Crippen in 1910 and the Bathtub Murders in 1915.

scholarly journals Role of Women and Environment in Temsula Ao’s Laburnum for My Head

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Kailash Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
The Core ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
Diverse Setting ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Biological Environment ◽  
Animal Violence

Women and environment play significant role in Temsula Ao’s Laburnum for My Head (2009). Women empowerment relates to giving women more power over their own life and the circumstances they are facing with. Empowering women is to empower them to break the traditional picture of perfect womanhood where patriarchy dominates and women get all the bad things in their life. Women through their self-assertion contribute greatly towards women empowerment. It is this self-assertion of women that forms the core of Temsula Ao’s collection of short stories entitled Laburnum for My Head, and this paper. Writers of literature has always been lured and urged by their physical and biological environment to manifest the beauties of nature in their creative endeavour. Temsula Ao’s Laburnum for My Head showcases the correlation between literature and the physical and biological aspects of nature. This paper relates Ao’s stance on women and environment in Laburnum for My Head by placing the stories in such diverse setting as ecology, environment, non-human animal, violence, bloodshed, marriage, motherhood, animal rights etc.

scholarly journals Companion-animal-inclusive domestic violence practice: Implications for service delivery and social work

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Nik Taylor ◽  
Heather Fraser ◽  
Damien W. Riggs
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Companion Animal ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Animal Violence

INTRODUCTION: Based on an understanding of links between human- and animal-directed domestic violence, this article: 1) argues for companion-animal inclusive domestic violence service delivery; and 2) reflects on the challenges this offers to social work and the human services.APPROACH: We start by considering the importance of companion animals in many people’s lives and then offer an overview of material on “the link” between human- and animal-directed violence, specifically as it pertains to domestic violence.CONCLUSIONS: Implications for service design and provision are discussed. We conclude with brief comments about the importance of centring animals in future considerations of human– animal violence links and outline how this offers an opportunity to challenge and re-think the humanist foundations on which traditional social work is built.

scholarly journals Investigating The Jack The Ripper Case: Engaging Students In A Criminal Investigations Class Through Active Learning

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Gutierrez ◽  
Syed Kazmi
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Forensic Psychology ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Violent Offenders ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Criminal Investigations ◽  
Psychology Class ◽  
Class Project ◽  
Jack The Ripper

The present study examines the utilization of a class project involving the Jack the Ripper murders. Students enrolled in a criminal investigations class were required to investigate the five canonical murders associated with the infamous serial killer known as Jack the Ripper and the murders that occurred in London during 1888. This paper explains the project and how students perceived the project. A brief survey of student perceptions regarding the project indicate that overall students thought the project was an excellent active learning experience. The project has excellent potential for active learning applications in others courses as well such as criminology, a special topics course about violent offenders or perhaps a forensic psychology class.

Das Horrorhaus des H. H. Holmes

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (03) ◽  
pp. 54-54
Author(s):  
Christian Hardinghaus
Keyword(s):  
Serial Killer ◽  
Jack The Ripper

Der Großteil der Menschen, die nach Namen von Serienmördern gefragt werden, nennen Jack the Ripper, gefolgt von Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer und anderen „Altbekannten“ aus Funk und Fernsehen. Nur Wenige kennen den ersten Täter, der mit dem Etikett „Serial Killer“ versehen wurde. Und dann ist es ausgerechnet ein Arzt, der in einigen Geschichtsbüchern der Kriminologie als der weltweit erste Serienmörder geführt wird. Dies ist die Geschichte von H. H. Holmes, der sich selbst als Teufel bezeichnete. In seinem Horror-Haus fanden die Ermittler Überreste von hundert Leichen. Experten vermuten, dass er bis zu 200 Menschen umbrachte. Gestanden, bevor er hingerichtet wurde, hat Holmes 27 Morde. Damit ist der Namensvetter des britischen Roman-Detektivs zwar nicht der Serienkiller, mit den meisten Morden auf dem Konto, aber die perfide Art, mit der er seine Opfer in ein eigens dafür geschaffenes Hotel lockte und sie darin quälte, bevor er sie auf brutalste Weise umbrachte, machen ihn zu einem der schrecklichsten Serienmörder aller Zeiten.

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