Auto Theft in Canada

Auto theft is a global problem but Canada is in the top percentage of that number. According to statistics Canada, in 2010 about 254 cars were stolen every day. People usually steal cars as a crime of opportunity. If a person sees the option of stealing a car and they don't think about it, they will probably steal it. The  number one car that is stolen in Canada is the Toyota Venza. Followed by Honda Civic, Ford F350, Cadillac Escalade and Nissan TrailBlazer. According to Statistics Canada 2010, the most cars in Canada were stolen in Regina, Saskatchewan. Out of the top 10 Canadian cities that car thefts occur in, three of those are in BC. (Abbotsford-Mission, Kelowna and Vancouver)

Serial and Mass Murder

Clifford Robert Olson- Born January 1, 1940 at St.Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC. In his teenage years, Olson committed crimes like theft, robbery and B&E's. Olson was know to inmates as 'Bobo' an inmate who would muscle or harass younger inmates. Others knew him as 'The Senator' because he honed cell-room lawyer skills. Being a so called 'stoolie', another name for a rat, Olson has to be moved to the Super Maximum Unit (SMU) which is the Protective Custody unit known as The Penthouse or "rat and rapo" unit. Olson was arrested for impaired driving and contributing to juvenile delinquency after crashing his car in Aggasiz with a 16-year-old passenger. 
   Olson drove an excessive amount and always changed rental cars. He travelled over 20,000km in three months, driving 14 different rental cars. Olson came to Vancouver Island in 1981, where he burglarized two Victoria homes before heading north to Nanaimo where he picked up two young women hitchhiking. Roughly three hours later, Olson was found on a dirt road just before the Long Beach exit with the two girls passing a bottle around. He tried to flee the scene but was arrested at the road block. Police charged him with impaired and reckless driving. Upon searching his rental car, they found a green address book with the name Judy Kozma, a 14-year-old New Westminster girl, written inside. Olson had been interviewed about the disappearances of 10 southern BC children, and said he would provide information for a payout of $100,000.
   On July 30, 1981 Clifford Olson met with Detective Tarr at a White Spot Restaurant where Olson said, to a hidden microphone, he would be hired to release information for a salary of $3,000 a month. He left the restaurant as detectives watched him amble out into the sunshine. Based on Levin and Fox's typology, Clifford Robert Olson would be considered a thrill-killer. One who seeks power over those who are weaker. Even when he was caught, Olson sold the bodies to the police for some feeling of power over them.

Marc Lepine- Born October 26, 1964 under the name Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi. Marc Lépine was in Montreal when he went on a killing rampage at a local college  killing eleven women wounding ten more women and a few men. Marc Lépine would be  a mission killer viewing that what he was doing would improve the world. In a  note Lépine's stated intention of killing feminists as a political statement,  and as a way to scare women back to their traditional roles, shocked people  around the world. Yet it was not the first such hate-inspired massacre. Like  others before it and still to come, it was fueled by a frustration that can  build into a hardened anger and a need to blame an outside person. Some  psychologists call it a catathymic reaction. Serial killers are driven by a need to feel to almost get a fix like an addict.  While a mass murderer believes he is on a mission and what he will make a  difference. Can we predict this and prevent this from happening again? No it  is not possible some we might be able to catch but how can we investigate every  single person who seems stressed or makes the statement that they want to kill  somebody. Outside of taking away our freedom the amount of money and man power  needed to investigate everyone that might be a killer.

Sexual Behaviour in Males

I think that sexual behaviour can be socialized in males by many things that happen daily. Males are taught to be what society thinks of as "manly". This involves traits like being assertive, aggressive, powerful and being able to fend for yourself. Males, stereotypically, are stronger, more aggressive and feel that they need to be "better" than their peers which leads to a more aggressive lifestyle. 


Hypermasculine- A psychological term for the exaggeration of stereotypical male behaviour. (aggression, physical strength, body hair etc.)


Males who commit sexual assault could be defined as hypermasculine. Reasons why men commit sexual assault can differ, but common reasons are because they have a false sense of relationships with their victims or they feel that they need to find a way to be dominant so they find women that they can victimize for personal pleasure, which at times, isn't even sexually related. 


Men are typically taught hypermasculinity by peers, elders and other people the look up to such as teachers and coaches. The types of sports males play compared to women, not saying that women don't play these sports, but the sports males tend to play involve contact, aggression and an extremely higher amount of competition which causes them to become more violent and types, raising the possibility of hypermasculine behaviour.

Long and Short Term Impacts of Crime

Victims of crime do not always forget what happened to them. Sometimes when somebody is a victim of crime it is not always the easiest thing for them to get over and sometimes they are haunted by it forever. It is very difficult for somebody who is a victim of crime to have to re-live what has happened. For instance, if a woman has been raped and it has traumatized her, it is going to be difficult for her to go through what happened to her with the police. In the Law and Order episode, Harper showed what the long term effects of a sexual assault can do to a woman. She had stopped eating, she could't only sleep during the day and when she finally did sleep at night she had to have all of the lights in her house on. The psychological effects that the assault took on her forced her to even sleep in her sneakers.

Crime Trends and Patterns

According to facts and my opinion, I believe that crime trends are decreasing in Canada and BC. Based on the Statistics Canada website, the police-reported index shows that crime rates and crime severity have both been decreasing over the past decade. I think that crime rates are decreasing because the economy is increasing. This increase in economy causes people to have jobs and/or increases the population of cities and rural areas. The increase in population would give criminals less opportunities to actually commit the crimes that they otherwise would. "The highest police-reported crime severity indexes in 2008 were all found in western CMAs. Crime severity was highest in Regina, followed by Abbotsford–Mission, Saskatoon, Kelowna, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver." - Statistics Canada. Violent crimes, being things like murder, sexual assault, robbery and things along those lines, have held fairly steady. It is the crimes that are easily accessible, like impaired driving or cannabis posession that have been increasing. I think the reason these crimes are increasing is because people find that the penalty isn't very strict so they can deal with the punishment that they are going to be given.