A Sociology of Crime Scene Cleanup

A Sociology of Crime Scene Cleanup

by Eddie Evans

By its very nature, sociology encompasses a wide area of study. A Sociology of Crime Scene Cleanup must also encompass a very wide area of study.

Sociology of Crime Scene Cleanup presents its study and research from viewpoints of victims of violent crimes, suicide survivor victims, and unattended death with decomposition relations. Traumatic blood loss from other incidents must come under the scrutiny of a sociological approach to fully cover a Sociology of Crime Scrim Cleanup.

No Sociology of Crime Scene Cleanup would dare bypass viewpoints from the crime scene cleanup technician's perspective. The trained crime scene cleanup technician trained to catch details uncovers angles left ignored in the past. A sociological attitude included in a crime scene cleanup ensures a wider and deeper understanding of violent crime scenes as well as other death scenes. Death cleanup leaves clues to social dysfunction in cases of homicide cleanup as well as mass murder cleanup.

Self-Employed Crime Scene Cleanup Technician Perspective

From the perspective of a self-employed crime scene cleanup technician, the economics of crime scene cleanup business activities soon become apparent. For those few self-employed crime scene cleanup technicians managing to survive in their business environment, county government corruption soon becomes apparent. For how else might an honest business come to understand the paucity of crime scene cleanup calls in county's of over 1,000,000?

Karl Marx

The 19th century radical philosopher, writer, journalist, Karl Mark, thought people were sure to stab each other in the back if given the chance, which helps to explain "the paucity of crime scene cleanup calls" to cleaners like myself. Marx would have prophesied coroner corruption in coroner and medical examiner departments nationwide in the United States. The United States, as well as other industrialized nations, offers a division of labor more sophisticated than ever before in history. Profiting from one's work fits the business ethic of capitalism's main motive, grow and grow money. As for the circumstances of capitalist growth, that's another matter.

Once a profit appeared in government administration of death and crime scene cleanup, Marx's own model of society points to corruption by coroner's investigators, coroner's clerks, deputy sheriffs, and others. Of course, top management comes under Marx's microscope. But for Marx, a look at capitalism's own logic points to corruption in government and business relationships. It's part of capitalism's inherent logic.

Marx would easily have seen the Russian calamity coming with its late introduction of crony capitalism. For Marx, crony capitalism within American government stands as a given, no microscopes needed, thank you.

Reading Marx leaves one with the impression that we live in a dog-eat-dog world. There's no one to trust. Greed unleashed within the bounds of capitalism leads to corruption whenever, wherever an opportunity arises. So it came to be that Karl Marx critiqued political economy to his time. In doing so he unveiled the logical fallacies and class prejudices of Malthus, Lock, Pareto, and xyz.

History and political economy's study moved Karl Marx to his findings and misgivings about society. Where others remained "above" the struggle, Marx dove into its midst. For Marx, not a sociology, but a philosophy intent upon changing the world moved his scholarship and practice.

Nothing less would do. Humanity's ever changing trajectory pointed, roughly, to revolutionary changes. Philosophers had documented these changes. For Marx, the ideas was to change society into a scientifically, humanist endeavor: "To each according to his need; from each according to his ability, to paraphrase."

Liberal laws against child labor abuses would not do for Marx. His aim was to end child labor abuse, period. For Marx, prostitution stood as an embodiment of capitalism's ethical norms. Selling one's body to Mr. Money Bags meant a life without human dignity. For we were, according to Karl Marx, living in a barbaric era as proven by capitalism's profiteering from human labor and war's profiteers.

Likewise with crime scene cleanup cronyism. Marx would approve of the Eddie Evans' approach to exposing coroner fraud in local government. By reading, writing, and then actively demonstrating in public, public education occurs. Exposing coroner fraud among coroner and other county employees because a practical form of apply sociological methods to society.

In a moralistic sense, helping victims of violence against victimization by local government has a revolutionary context. We're reminded of the American Revolution.

None of this coincides with what we hope to learn about homicide from homicide cleanup. We know from professional researchers that homicides increase with government's failure to keep the public trust. During periods of economic change we expect homicide rates to increase; we also expects a decline in payment for homicide cleanup fees; more families will and do find the means to clean after family homicides.

None of this homicide cleanup information comes as news to the Mexican American populations. Los Angeles crime scene cleanup activities point to a paucity of crime scene cleanup opportunities among Los Angeles' mexican families. This remains so in spite of the high number of gang murders each year in the Los Angeles Mexican American neighborhoods. Economics, community norms, and expectations account for this trend to ignore professional Los Angeles' professional crime scene cleanup companies.

Some of the above we might expect from a Marxist analysis of concrete conditions. A cultural analysis will show the machismo at work in some Los Angeles blood cleanup work.

Max Weber

Max Weber's sociological approach. He to society to posit managerial cover-up when crime scene cleanup fraud came to their attention. Assuming of course, top management had no prior role in crime scene cleanup corruption as they rose from the ranks. Bureaucracy's come to exist for their own benefit. In short, bureaucrats "circle their wagons" once an outside threat arises. A scholar by any other word, Weber's history of bureaucracy and religion left us with a sociological approach to understanding institutions and patterns of behavior.

In Orange County, California, we find this model well underway in the Sheriff-Coroner's Department. Years of observation and practice in Orange County by Eddie Evans have shown conclusively that Orange County's government bureaucracy's greatest concern is a benevolent appearance, rather than correcting divinations from its own charter. See my comments on the Orange County consumer fraud and Orange County fraud page. These pages turn to the institutionalization of crime in county bureaucracies.

Emile Durkheim brought the "microscope" to sociology through a positivist approach. He began by "crunching the numbers" when it came to an investigation of suicide. No other human activity would serve as well for actively constructing scientific models of society. Suicide numbers provided the stuff for reproducing outcomes world-wide, at least where numbers for suicide were kept.

As a result, a sociology of crime scene cleanup will include perspectives created by Marx, Weber, and Emile Durkheim. Others must also follow in their footsteps. Others must have proceeded them as well. How else might they have come to stand so high on their perch over and among society's masses?

Emile Durkheim

Where Marx found humanity working at its best in organized units of mass production, capitalism's organizing principle for labor, Durkheim found humanity living and working as a socially defined species. Work, play, worship, and our home life defined us. Where one of these variables shifts in its standard deviation, a change in social outcomes might arise, at least for Durkheim. To study society, for Durkheim, meant doing sociology.

To this end he set out the rules now accepted by many sociologist. A sociology of crime scene cleanup would do well to follow these rules as well. In The Rules of Sociological Method, Durkheim pointed to the importance of using social facts for study. These facts were to apply to groups, not individuals. Individual facts might help those involved in a Psychology of Crime Scene Cleanup, but could go no further than individual facts. (See Psychology of Crime Scene Cleanup)

Such facts would include statements of facts like these:

• New Zealand is a capitalist society.
• Men over 40 have lived 67% of their natural lives.
• Crime scene cleanup costs over $1,000.

Durkheim's achievement meant that humanity's ability to measure different groups in a scientific manner became possible. This meant positivism had a following. Natural sciences applied to social studies would now create social studies in the form of sociology, a study of groups.

My applying mathematical models to social groups, we might find a higher suicide rate in Sweden, a lower suicide rate in Spain must lead to hypotheses about these two different societies. As to why any one Swede of Spaniard choose suicide instead of continuing their lives, remains a mystery. Emerging hypotheses about the groups individuals were studied unveiled new knowledge.

Egoistic Suicides

For example, Durkheim showed reasons to separate different suicides into different types of suicide. He used egoistic suicides to demonstrate strong relationships lead to these powerful social relationships. If we look to the Japanese su mari and Japanese military, we find many such examples. (return to Emile Durkheim at suicide-cleanup)

If we were to seek a quantitative science for suicide, we'd seek out statistical studies by insurance corporations. Now, so far as they go, statistics show that suicide occurs more often among white males, although women try to commit suicide more frequently than do men. Black women try to commit suicide more than other demographic groups, and succeed less often then whites.

Age leads us to higher numbers of suicide among men of 40 than men of 20.

Less variation exists among women.

Suicide is more frequent in spring than in any other season, more frequent among single than among married people, and more common in urban than in rural areas.

We find more suicide in times of peace than in time of war, and that suicide occurs more often among Protestants than among Catholics. (return to Durkheim).

Following Durkheim, I propose on my suicide-cleanup page dolphin suicide. My in tent there portrays dolphins as social animals. Once isolated from meaningful group relationships, these animals become suicidal. See page 2 of suicide cleanup for more on this behavior.

Nebraska has its own problems with suicide. More attention to this matter will follow shortly.