“A biographical sketch of a deviant”
Answering the problem “identify a deviant and discuss the factors that lead him/her to become a deviant.” is like finding a needle in a mountain of haystack. I find it hard because there are a lot of possible personalities but I cannot justify my reasons for considering them deviants. So what I did as a social science student was, first I created a set of assumption (a.k.a Paradigm) and in that paradigm I formed a stereo-typical deviant that will identify a specific person. And after several trial and errors, I successfully identified one famous criminal that I can consider as a deviant. He is none other than: Robert Berdella.
The factors that made him a deviant lies within his biography. First was his inspiration. When he was a teenager, the film version of John Fowles’ The Collector, in which the protagonist kidnaps and imprisons a young woman, influenced him. This proves that he liked violence since his adolescence.
When he was studying at Kansas City Art Institute, he was convicted but received a suspended sentence for selling amphetamines. He was later arrested for possession of LSD and marijuana, but the charges were dropped for lack of evidence. When a person uses prohibited drugs he or she will not think and act on the proper way and he or she tends to do violent things. This is a great factor of his behavior because not only affects us physically but also psychologically. And his inhumane acts were triggered by the drugs.
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Berdella opened the store Bob’s Bizarre Bazaar, a novelty shop that catered to occult-type tastes. Around the neighborhood he was considered odd but was liked and participated in organizing a local community crime watch programs. However, inside his home, it was discovered that Robert ‘Bob’ Berdella lived in a world dominated by sadomasochistic slavery, murder and barbarous torture.
On April 2, 1988 a neighbor found a young man on his porch clad in only a dog collar fastened around his neck. The man told the neighbor an incredible tale of sexual tortuous abuse that he had endured at the hands of Berdella. The police placed Berdella in custody and searched his home where 357 photographs of victims in various positions of torture were recovered. Also found were torture devices, occult literature, ritual robes, human skills and bones and a human head in Bedella’s yard. By April 4 the authorities had an overwhelming amount of evidence to charge Berdella on seven counts of sodomy, one count of felonious restraint and one account of first degree assault. After closer scrutiny of the photographs it was discovered that six of the 23 men identified were homicide victims.
Berdella’s biography showed that his deviance was on a higher level. He might have a psychological problem, not only because of drugs but in also in his life that was greatly inspired by a violent movie.
Given the following reasons and factors, I considered Robert Berdella as a deviant, but that doesn’t mean that he is the only deviant in this diverse world, each and every one of as are deviant. We might not have realized it yet because we do it unconsciously; it is because we are all human beings. We are imperfect and this imperfection makes us a lot more beautiful than any other creation.
