Crimes (and reasons for committing them) are the obvious connections between the article, the short story, the lyrics, and Crime And Punishment.
The article provided the best distinction between criminals and non-criminals because of it's scientific research. They studied the neurological aspects of people with antisocial personality disorders, psychopaths (people with severe antisocial personality disorders), and even children (specifically 3 year old) as an attempt to prevent them from committing future crimes. Sounds like The Minority Report, huh? A shocking discovery made was that psychopaths showed an 18% volume reduction in the part of the brain called the amygdala. The amygdala is said to be "the seat of emotion." So basically, psychopath criminals who commit horrible crimes have no guilt or remorse afterwards. Makes sense?? They concluded that, "There is a neuroscience basis in part to the cause of crime."
In The Minority Report, there is a system in place called Precrime. A machine connected to three precogs (or people with the ability to predict the future) shoot out cards on which the names of the soon-to-be criminal and person associated with the crime is printed. The names of the people on the cards are then hunted down and held in detention camps as an attempt to adjust their fate and prevent them from committing their predicted crimes. It wasn't until the Police Commissioner, John Allison Anderton, was accused of being a future criminal that he realized the system may not be so accurate. There must be tons of other innocent people in those camps as well! Good thing we don't have that system in OUR society. Can you imagine?
The lyrics to I Don't Like Mondays is a whole new level of crazy! A 16 year old girl goes on a shooting spree at a playground because she doesn't like Mondays. Really!? I mean I don't like them either honey, but why'd you have to go do all that? The first two lines of the poem seems to be indicating an internal problem: "The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload." This goes back to the article and it's neuroscience base.
For both the article and the short-story, assumptions are being made for the majority of a group. The minority report (in some cases) as displayed in the short-story supersedes the majority report. People must realize that they can't control human kind or their actions. Whatever's bound to happen will happen naturally. I mean c'mon now, haven't you heard of "Everything happens for a reason?" Not all mentally-illed people are criminals and not all criminals are mentally-illed people. There is no absolute way for us to truly know whether someone will commit a crime or not. What I do know is that the best prevention is NOT to lock up innocent people who we think will commit crimes.
Crime And Punishment is relevant to these three texts because .. Just go back to the title of the novel. They all also seem to have some type of connection with the article as well about a criminal's mind. The people in these pieces of literature don't seem to be so mentally stable to me. For instance, Anderton continues on with committing his crime just to prove the Precrime system to be accurate. Like really dude!? Oh yeah, that's just a great reason to kill Kaplon. I can't seem to grasp these characters and their horrible reasoning for things so let me just stop here. (Shaking my head!)
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