Victimology
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a condition usually brought about by witnessing terrifying and in most cases life-threatening events. Such events are mostly psychological in nature and may include natural disasters, war or even other situations that may invoke the feelings of fear or helplessness. Inasmuch as a number of people may recover from the aftereffects of post-traumatic stress disorder, others experience symptoms that get worse with time which are then referred to as the product of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Any experience that acts as a threat to oneself is bound to trigger a fight or a freeze response to the body’s nervous system. PTSD effects and symptoms vary differently with individuals since every individual’s nervous system, as well as the tolerance to stress levels, is rather different.
1. Re-experiencing the traumatic event. When the symptom takes this angle, it may include upsetting memories, nightmares, and flashbacks that are accompanied by feelings of distress in addition to intense physical reactions when one is reminded of the event. Sweating profusely, pounding heart, nausea are also some of the after effects that come with re-experiencing the event (Kubzansky, Bordelois, Jun, Roberts, Cerda, Bluestone & Koenen, 2014).
2. Increased anxiety and emotional arousal. These symptoms mainly affect the sleeping patterns. Individuals experience troubled sleeping experiences, outbursts of anger, they get easily startled, they become hyper vigilant, concentrating becomes rather difficult and they become jumpy (Kubzansky, Bordelois, Jun, Roberts, Cerda, Bluestone & Koenen, 2014).
3. Avoiding reminders of the trauma. Individuals try as much as possible to avoid activities, thoughts or even places that usually remind them of the traumatic event. The aftermath is that these individuals may detach themselves from others and become emotionally unavailable and numb. Loss of interests in some activities is also evident and a sense of limited future for themselves creeps in (Kubzansky, Bordelois, Jun, Roberts, Cerda, Bluestone & Koenen, 2014).
What is the most important hearing in the legislative process?
The most important hearing in the legislative process is consideration by the committee to which a particular bill was assigned. His also compress of the deliberations of the subcommittee. In this process, chances for a bill’s passage are usually determined. Most evidently, failure of working on a bill almost guarantees that it will crumble and will not pass. After the subcommittee are done with their deliberations, the full committee then meets in different sessions meant to discuss the par say bill in more details with major considerations of amendments to be made and also to decide whether or not the report should be presented to the full Senate or House (Bar-Siman-Tov, I, 2015).
What type of homicide is the most dangerous? Justify your answer from a law enforcement perspective, and a prosecutor's point of view.
The most serious type of homicide is murder. Essentially, murders are broken down into two sub-categories which are first-degree and second-degree murder. Murder or more precisely known by law, Criminal Homicide, can be described as unlawfully taking someone’s life. First-degree murder is usually premeditated while second-degree refers to a murder committed in the process of committing another crime. First-degree murder cases usually receive the most severe punishments that include life in prison and at times the death penalty (Gruenewald, Chermak & Freilich, 2013).
In second-degree murder cases, the killing may have been intentional but not premeditated like in the case of first-degree murder. Second-degree murders are mostly referred as “crimes of passion” this type of murders are also serious and the defendant would face charges like life in prison. However, the death sentence is not likely to be passed in this case.
References
Bar-Siman-Tov, I. (2015). Mending the legislative process–the preliminaries.
Gruenewald, J., Chermak, S., & Freilich, J. D. (2013). Far-right lone wolf homicides in the United States. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 36(12), 1005-1024.
Kubzansky, L. D., Bordelois, P., Jun, H. J., Roberts, A. L., Cerda, M., Bluestone, N., & Koenen, K. C. (2014). The weight of traumatic stress: a prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and weight status in women. JAMA psychiatry, 71(1), 44-51.
