What is Considered Normal?

Reisz, Matthew. "Culture: The Subject of Murder." Times Higher Education. N.p., 21 Mar. 2013. Web. 10 Apr. 2013.

This article was written very differently than all my other articles.  The article talked about how society's prejudices, spoken and unspoken, have influenced how we perceive people's actions.  In the early part of the article, the author talks about being normal and what we perceive as normal.  We just assume that people who kill others aren't normal because.... Because why?  People have been calling people murderers for a long time, so our society has just grown up with knowing what is normal and what isn't.  The article discusses how the different stereotypes we have know, were around a long time ago.  Back then, people who killed children were the lowest of the low.  And today those people still are.  The basis of this article is to reveal that culture also has an impact on criminals and their behavior.

This article was written at a very high level, so there were many words that I had to look up.  But for the most part this article was very, very good.  It went about crime differently than all my other articles.  The author looked at societies prejudices and how that was linked to criminals and their behavior.  It was refreshing to read something different.  The article made me stop and think a few times because I had never thought about the topic that way before.  Overall the article was very well-written and I would recommend it.