Jack the Ripper Kimberlee Levett Instructor: Brent Paterline Walden University August 7, 2021 This study source was downloaded by 100000800531006 from CourseHero.com on 10-30-2022 00:50:48 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/111212595/week-4-assign-criminal-profiling-Levett-Kdocx/ Victim Population of Jack The Ripper Five women are thought to have been murdered by a single man known as Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper was said to have had eleven victims, but only five are confirmed. The first of the five victims are Mary Ann Nichols. Mary Ann was born in 1845 in London. She and her husband had five children before divorcing in 1881 for unspecified reasons. Mary Ann worked in workhouses and as a maidservant after they divorced, but neither job lasted long. To make ends meet, she eventually turned to prostitution. Mary Ann lived in public lodgings and was known to be arrested for drunkness and disorderly conduct. The next known victim of Jack the Ripper was Annie Chapman. Annie was born Eliza Ann Smith in London around 1840. In 1869, she married John Chapman, and they had three children. Due to excessive drinking, the marriage eventually fell apart, and Annie moved to Whitechapel. Crochet work and flower sales supplemented her income, which was supplemented by occasional prostitution. Like Mary Ann, Annie was known to drink excessively and lived in public lodging. People report that Dark Annie" was a hostile person and often got involved in physical altercations with other women. Violent behavior from Annie was especially true when she drank (Holmes and Holmes, 2009). The third victim of Jack the Ripper was Elizabeth Stride. Elizabeth Gustafsdotter was born in the Swedish town of Torslanda in the year 1843. Elizabeth turned to prostitution after a failed marriage and was repeatedly apprehended by police. She supported herself by sewing, housecleaning, and prostitution during their on-again, off-again relationship. Elizabeth was not well educated, drank heavily, and lived in public lodgings. Gustafsdotter was the only victim that body was not brutally mutilated because many believe his efforts were interrupted. This study source was downloaded by 100000800531006 from CourseHero.com on 10-30-2022 00:50:48 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/111212595/week-4-assign-criminal-profiling-Levett-Kdocx/ The fourth victim of Jack the Ripper is Catherine Eddowes. Catherine Eddowes, born in 1942, moved around England a few times before settling in London with her boyfriend, Thomas Conway, and their three children. By 1880, she had abandoned her family, taken to drinking, and was sharing a lodging house with a new partner. Catherine worked odd jobs to supplement her income and turned to casual prostitution to fund her alcohol addiction. Catherine had a great deal of facial and body mutilation. I speculate the excessive mutilation was because he was not able to finish the job with.

1. Jack the Ripper
Kimberlee Levett
Instructor: Brent Paterline
Walden University
August 7, 2021
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Victim Population of Jack The Ripper
Five women are thought to have been murdered by a single man
known as Jack the
Ripper. Jack the Ripper was said to have had eleven victims, but
only five are confirmed. The
first of the five victims are Mary Ann Nichols. Mary Ann was
born in 1845 in London. She and
her husband had five children before divorcing in 1881 for
unspecified reasons. Mary Ann

2. worked in workhouses and as a maidservant after they divorced,
but neither job lasted long. To
make ends meet, she eventually turned to prostitution. Mary
Ann lived in public lodgings and
was known to be arrested for drunkness and disorderly conduct.
The next known victim of Jack the Ripper was Annie Chapman.
Annie was born Eliza
Ann Smith in London around 1840. In 1869, she married John
Chapman, and they had three
children. Due to excessive drinking, the marriage eventually
fell apart, and Annie moved to
Whitechapel. Crochet work and flower sales supplemented her
income, which was supplemented
by occasional prostitution. Like Mary Ann, Annie was known to
drink excessively and lived in
public lodging. People report that Dark Annie" was a hostile
person and often got involved in
physical altercations with other women. Violent behavior from
Annie was especially true when
she drank (Holmes and Holmes, 2009).
The third victim of Jack the Ripper was Elizabeth Stride.
Elizabeth Gustafsdotter was
born in the Swedish town of Torslanda in the year 1843.

3. Elizabeth turned to prostitution after a
failed marriage and was repeatedly apprehended by police. She
supported herself by sewing,
housecleaning, and prostitution during their on-again, off-again
relationship. Elizabeth was not
well educated, drank heavily, and lived in public lodgings.
Gustafsdotter was the only victim that
body was not brutally mutilated because many believe his
efforts were interrupted.
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The fourth victim of Jack the Ripper is Catherine Eddowes.
Catherine Eddowes, born in
1942, moved around England a few times before settling in
London with her boyfriend, Thomas
Conway, and their three children. By 1880, she had abandoned
her family, taken to drinking, and
was sharing a lodging house with a new partner. Catherine
worked odd jobs to supplement her
income and turned to casual prostitution to fund her alcohol
addiction. Catherine had a great deal

4. of facial and body mutilation. I speculate the excessive
mutilation was because he was not able
to finish the job with Elizabeth Stride.
The last victim known as the Canonical Five was Mary Jane
Kelly. Kelly was born in
Limerick, Ireland, one of several children born into a middle-
class family of John and Catherine
Kelly. At 16, she married for the first time and is thought to
have had one child from this
marriage (Holmes and Holmes, 2009). Mary moved to London
in 1884 after her husband died
and found work in a brothel. Mary was also known to drink and
was three months pregnant at the
time of her murder. She is the only known victim of Jack the
Ripper killed inside.
Suspected Personality of Jack the Ripper
Based on the information On Jack the Ripper, I would suspect
that a woman physically
abused him during his youth. Some researchers believe that
severe childhood abuse,
compounded by additional neglect in school and ineffective
social services, is a recipe for
developing a violent deviant personality, frequently associated

5. with social imitation via vicarious
conditioning (Pakhomou, 2004). Another factor that could
explain Jack the Ripper's actions is
that prostitutes are easy prey. Prostitutes usually willingly get
into cars and drive to a secluded
location with Johns. The Canonical Five were all known to
drink excessive alcohol, which made
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them easier to control. The serial killer's careful selection of
vulnerable victims demonstrates that
they have the street smarts to choose victims who will not
resist, will be relatively easy to
control, and will go unnoticed. Such careful selection protects
the killer from identification and
apprehension (Egger and Egger, 2004).
Similarities Among the Crime Scenes
Jack the Ripper murdered at least five women, all prostitutes, in
or near the Whitechapel
district of London's East End between August and November

6. 1888. At the time of their deaths,
all the victims were living in public lodging, mostly middle-
aged, and wore black bonnets. Jack
the Ripper's preferred weapon was a sharp blade, which he used
to mutilate the bodies of his
victims. The assailant was skilled with a knife and had a
thorough understanding of human
anatomy, speculating that he was a doctor, nurse, or butcher.
The victims were killed outside in a
public area as if the killer wanted victims to be found quickly,
all except Mary Kelly. The
victim's bodies were all posed and disemboweled except for
Elizabeth Stride. The killer took
various organs from the victims and cut their throats. The
murder of Catherine Eddowes was
particularly brutal with numerous cuts on her face and abdomen.
The lower left eyelid and the
upper right eyelid were both cut. The tip of the nose was cut off
due to a deep cut in the nasal
bone. Another cut was discovered on the mouth at a right angle,
as well as a triangular cut about
an inch and a half long on each side of the cheek (Holmes and
Holmes, 2009).
The information I gather about Jack the Ripper based on the

7. similarities in how he
mutilated and disposed of the victims' bodies is that he is
knowledgeable of the human anatomy,
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had a type of victim, and chose a public location to kill and
dispose of the bodies. The crime
scenes were a gruesome spectacle, and the brutalized bodies
were physically distorted. The killer
took the organs of his victims as trophies. Choosing to murder
the victims outside in a public
area shows that the killer likely wanted to humiliate them
further. Prostitution was a way of life
for the women to support themselves after their failed
relationship. Often serial killers pick
prostitutes as their victims because they feel they are relieving
society of unclean women.
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8. References
Eggers, S., & Egger, K. (2004). Victims of serial killers: the
"less dead." In Victimology:
A Study of Crime Victims and their Roles (pp. 9-32). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Custom
Publishing. Retrieved from
http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/9450/9676891
/CJ371_Ch01.pdf
Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (2009). Profiling Violent
Crimes: An Investigative Tool
(4th Edition). SAGE Publications, Inc
Pakhomou, S. M., 2004. Serial Killers: Offender’s Relationship
to the Victim and
Selected Demographics. International Journal of Police Science
and Management. 6 (4), 219-233
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Due Date: Unit 4
Percentage of Course Grade: 15%.
CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT
DISTINGUISHED
Examine the
different
benchmarking and
standard-setting
agencies, their
procedures for
conducting surveys,
and determining
compliance for a
specific health care
setting.
15%
Does not list the
different
benchmarking and
standard-setting
agencies.
Lists the different

10. benchmarking and
standard-setting
agencies, but does
not examine them or
their procedures for
conducting surveys
and determining
compliance for a
specific health care
setting.
Examines the
different
benchmarking and
standard-setting
agencies, their
procedures for
conducting
surveys, and
determining
compliance for a
specific health care
setting.
Analyzes the different
benchmarking and
standard-setting agencies,
their procedures for
conducting surveys, and
determining compliance for
a specific health care
setting.
Analyze national
safety goals
available through

11. benchmarking and
standard-setting
organizations.
15%
Does not identify
national safety goals
available through
benchmarking and
standard-setting
organizations.
Identifies national
safety goals available
through benchmarking
and standard-setting
organizations.
Analyzes national
safety goals
available through
benchmarking and
standard-setting
organizations.
Analyzes national safety
goals available through
benchmarking and
standard-setting
organizations, and
identifies assumptions on
which the analysis is
based.
Evaluate benefits

12. and outcomes of
continuous
readiness.
15%
Does not identify
benefits and
outcomes of
continuous
readiness.
Identifies benefits and
outcomes of
continuous readiness.
Evaluates benefits
and outcomes of
continuous
readiness.
Evaluates benefits and
outcomes of continuous
readiness, and identifies
assumptions on which the
evaluation is based.
Assess identified
risks related to a
specific health care
setting that could
adversely impact
benchmarking,
ranking, and
compliance with
external standards.

13. 15%
Does not list
identified risks
related to a specific
health care setting
that could adversely
impact
benchmarking,
ranking, and
compliance with
external standards.
Lists, but does not
assess, identified
risks related to a
specific health care
setting that could
adversely impact
benchmarking,
ranking, and
compliance with
external standards.
Assesses identified
risks related to a
specific health care
setting that could
adversely impact
benchmarking,
ranking, and
compliance with
external standards.
Assesses identified risks

14. related to a specific health
care setting that could
adversely impact
benchmarking, ranking,
and compliance with
external standards, and
identifies assumptions on
which the assessment is
based.
Evaluate current
policy and
procedure to
determine if risks
are controllable or
uncontrollable
factors.
15%
Does not identify
current policy and
procedure to
determine if risks
are controllable or
uncontrollable
factors.
Identifies, but does
not evaluate, current
policy and procedure
to determine if risks
are controllable or
uncontrollable factors.
Evaluates current

15. policy and
procedure to
determine if risks
are controllable or
uncontrollable
factors.
Evaluates current policy
and procedure to
determine if risks are
controllable or
uncontrollable factors, and
identifies assumptions on
which the evaluation is
based.
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Evaluate how to link
health care safety
goals to those of the
organizational
strategic plan to
create and sustain
an organization-
wide safety culture
in a specific health

16. care setting.
15%
Does not describe
how to link health
care safety goals to
those of the
organizational
strategic plan to
create and sustain
an organization-
wide safety culture
in a specific health
care setting.
Describes, but does
not evaluate, how to
link health care safety
goals to those of the
organizational
strategic plan to
create and sustain an
organization-wide
safety culture in a
specific health care
setting.
Evaluates how to
link health care
safety goals to
those of the
organizational
strategic plan to
create and sustain
an organization-

17. wide safety culture
in a specific health
care setting.
Evaluates how to link
health care safety goals to
those of the organizational
strategic plan to create and
sustain an organization-
wide safety culture in a
specific health care setting,
and identifies assumptions
on which the evaluation is
based.
Write content clearly
and logically, with
correct use of
grammar,
punctuation, and
mechanics.
5%
Does not write
content clearly or
logically, or with
correct use of
grammar,
punctuation, and
mechanics.
Writes content with
errors in clarity, logic,
grammar, punctuation,
or mechanics.

18. Writes content
clearly and
logically, with
correct use of
grammar,
punctuation, and
mechanics.
Writes content clearly and
logically, with correct use
of grammar, punctuation,
and mechanics, and uses
relevant evidence to
support a central idea.
Correctly format
paper, citations, and
references using
APA style.
5%
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paper, citations, and
references using
APA style.
Formats paper,
citations, and
references using APA
style, but with errors.
Correctly formats
paper, citations,
and references

19. using APA style,
and citations
contain a few
errors.
Correctly formats paper,
citations, and references
using APA style, and
citations are free from all
errors.
Assignment: Victim Characteristics and Profiling
Until relatively recently, victims of serial and mass murderers
were not viewed as a significant source of information about the
perpetrator. However, with the emergence of "victimology"—
that is, the study of crime victims - law enforcement and
criminal profilers have realized the importance of victim
characteristics in creating an accurate profile. Observable
physical features, such as a victim's age, race, and gender, are
associated with characteristics of the serial or mass murderer.
For example, most serial murderers choose victims of the same
race. Unobservable details about the victim gathered through
intense investigative techniques also can help criminal profilers
learn a lot about the serial murderer. For instance, knowing the
victim's occupation, lifestyle, habits, and educational
background can provide insight into the psyche of the serial
murderer.
The characteristics of the victim not only are useful in creating
a profile of the serial murderer, but they also help explain the
way in which the murder was carried out. If the victims were
sexually assaulted and mutilated, it indicates that the serial
murderer is motivated by sexual fantasies of power and control.
Careful investigative techniques and adequate processing of the
evidence obtained from the victim's body and the crime scene

20. can provide useful information to profilers as they begin to
develop a complete criminal profile of the serial murderer.
To prepare for this assignment:
Review the article "Serial Sexual Murderers and Prostitutes as
Their Victims: Difficulty Profiling Perpetrators and Victim
Vulnerability as Illustrated by the Green River Case." Consider
how the victims' characteristics and details from the crime
scenes in the Green River case helped in the creation of the
profile.
Review the article "Serial Killers: Offender's Relationship to
the Victim and Selected Demographics." Consider how different
characteristics of victims, such as gender and race, provide
specific information about serial murderers. Also, reflect on
how victims' characteristics may help in creating a profile of the
serial or mass murderer.
Review Chapter 13 of your course text, Profiling Violent
Crimes: An Investigative Tool. Focus on the victim populations
targeted by Jack the Ripper. Pay attention to the victims'
characteristics, the manner in which they were murdered, and
how their bodies were mutilated and disposed of. Also, consider
what you would glean about Jack the Ripper based on this
information.
The assignment (2-3 pages):
Identify the victim populations that Jack the Ripper targeted.
Explain what information you would glean about Jack the
Ripper based on the characteristics of victim populations he
targeted. Be specific.
Briefly describe the similarities among the crime scenes in
terms of the way in which Jack the Ripper mutilated and
disposed of the victims' bodies.
Explain what information you would gather about Jack the
Ripper based on the similarities in how he mutilated and
disposed of the victims' bodies. Be specific.

21. Support your Assignment with specific references to all
resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a
reference list only for those resources not included in the
Learning Resources for this course.