Opportunity Structures

Question 1

How do opportunity structures contribute to serial killing

Answer 1

Make women more available who are seen to be vulnerable

Question 2

How has society changed

Answer 2

Since 1980s more females are hitchiking, travelling alone in the dark making them easily accessible

Question 3

Study about females being victims

Answer 3

Haggerty 2009

Question 4

Haggerty 2009

Answer 4

60% of the victims are females

Question 5

Michael Ross and opportunity

Answer 5

Picked up young girls, travelling alone, took advantage, Hitchikers, always after dark

Question 6

Gary Ridgeway Opportunity

Answer 6

Prostitutes easy to pick up and kill

Question 7

Limitation of opportunity structures

Answer 7

Does not mean other groups are not targeting in the group identification framework such as those with racial ideologies

Question 8

Racial Killer

Answer 8

Joseph Paul Franklin who killed people who were Jewish and Black

Question 9

When did serial killings peak

Answer 9

1980s

Question 10

Haggerty 2009: greater accessibility

Answer 10

modernist framework of denigration and victimization opportunity structures were reinforced

Question 11

What stereotype does killing woman show

Answer 11

Men show power over woman and shows the differential system between the two as males are coupled with aggression

Question 12

Quinet 2007

Answer 12

Majority of victims are females and prostitutes

Question 13

Why may prostitutes be easy targets

Answer 13

Easily accessible, less noticed, less time to solve, attitudes towards sex workers, lack social and home community, kill as many as can without being notices (Gary Ridgeway)

Question 14

How many % of females are prostitutes

Answer 14

78%

Question 15

Increase in prostituted victims from 1970 to 1980

Answer 15

16% to 30% Quinet 2011