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"Vampires"

Hypothesis

People who think they are and proceed to bite others

- Pop culture recently has portrayed "vampires" as

- Romantic, good- looking, strong, fast, immortal and invincible

- In the past, pop culture described "vampires" as

- Monsters, gross huge fangs, blood-suckers, and sickly pale

From this information we hypothesis that is is because of pop culture's attractive portrayal of vampires, that people desire these traits to the extreme of claiming a "vampire" role as a way of fulfilling these desires. We also hypothesis that there is a copycat effect going on. We suspect this, because the people going around claiming to be vampires and the ones biting people are receiving media attention (even though it's negative it's still attention) therefor we view the situation as attention seeking opposed to an actual mental illness. Lastly there is a disease (not mental) known as Porphyria thats symptoms could lead a person with it to believe they are a vampire (whose traits are more widely known) over having the disease of Porphyria.

Phorphia's symptoms include an actual allergy to the sun, anemia, swollen gums (making teeth appear bigger), and a constant fatigue that would leave the person wondering what they were missing. Even people with phorphia don't require the consumption of blood. Therefor we conclude that the biting and consumption of human blood is deviant.

Form of Deviance

The Past 5-10years

- Retreatism: They reject social norms (biting others and drinking blood) but don't necessarily go against conventional goals

- See deviance examples below

-Deviance: Any behavior that violates a cultural norm

- Claiming to be another species

- Claiming to be a mythological creature

- Biting others (especially in an attack)

- Publicly biting others

- *Drinking human blood (cannibalism)

- Drinking animal blood

- Vampire claims= increased

- Biting attacks on people= increased

- Media portrayal= less monstrous than 10 years ago

Some Cases last 5- 10 yrs.

- 19 yr. white male, Texas: Attacked and bite a woman claiming to be 500 years old and needing to feed

- 20's in age, 2 males + 1 female, New Zealand, attacked and repeatedly bite a man

- Middle aged male, San Diago, bit another middle aged man as a "vampire"

- Rebecca Josephine Smith, white, female: attacked & bit an elderly man when he was sleeping

- Joshua Rudiger, 22: claimed to be a 2,000 year old vampire

- Teenage vampire cults, Canada: Police found them drinking cows blood

Who?-The statistics

- Both genders have equal claims

- Attacks mostly by males

- Typically Caucasians

- Age range: teenagers- early 30's; 90%

- Location: Europe and North America (mainly)

- Also Asia and South America (but less so)

- From 2002-now there has been a 12% increase in people who claim to be vampires

WHAT?!?

- People claiming to be "vampires"

- Yes, there are people who truly think they are vampires

- The claim: Arguably indicating a mental illness

-Mental illness= not deviant

-However there are cases describing "vampires" claiming they have a need to "feed" and have proceeded to attack and bite people

-Biting people= deviant

- Therefor they are deviant

Alissa Legacy, Brian Ellerholz, Justine Schmoeger

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