Lizzie Borden's Crimes

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The paper explores the horrific axe murders Lizzie Borden is supposed to have committed. The paper offers a look at her background and discusses how socialization theories suggest that her poverty-like conditions, family relationships, isolation from her peers and lack of self-image all played a part in her crimes.

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"Lizzie (not Elizabeth, her baptismal name is Lizzie) was born in 1860, the daughter of Andrew Borden. Andrew was a successful banker and businessman, but like many Victorian fathers, was exceedingly strict with his two daughters. He was known to be worth a great deal "But refused to install plumbing in his home" (Burns, 2004), and still retains a reputation for meanness: "He and his family lived as paupers in a modest, two and one half story frame house in one of the poorest sections of town" (Dorfman, 2002). At the time of the murders, he and his daughters were not close: he had married again shortly after his first wife's death, and the girls and the stepmother quarreled frequently."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aiuto, Russell (2007) "Lizzie Borden took an Axe" http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/borden/index_1.html.
• Burns, Kari Sable (2004) "Lizzie Andrew Borden" http://www.karisable.com/lizborden.htm
• Dorfman, Marjorie (2002) "Who is Lizzie Borden?" http://nm.essortment.com/lizzieborden_rggu.htm
• Lizzie Borden Society (2003) "Some Genealogy" http://www.lizzieandrewbordern.com/Archive0404/LBorden/genealogy.htm

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