By: John Ray

1. Serial Killers By: John Ray

2. Thesis Statement Most Serial Killers kill because they often are abused or mistreated as a child causing them to hurt someone.

3. There is a form of aggression on one end of the continuum known as assertiveness while the other end of the continuum is hostile or disruptive aggression The assertiveness form of aggression is healthy, non-pathological and non-destructive, and fuels human motivations such as ambitions, ideals, goals, autonomy, connection with others and self-realization. We are all capable of being aggressive, of containing unimaginable aggressive fantasies of torture, sadism and murder, but we are not all serial killers. In various ways, we manage to control our aggression, to not act out our violent fantasies. Serial killers, however, have lost the boundaries between fantasy and reality, between assertiveness and aggression, between savagery and civilization, and have disconnected from humanity in a way that leaves most of us stunned and afraid of their unthinkable cruelty and unfathomable enjoyment of inflicting pain and fear.

4. Serial murder is defined as the killing of three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period. This cooling-off period may be weeks, months or even years The sexual nature of the crime, which may or may not be explicit, is perverse and sadistic and reflects an aggression that is particularly destructive, pathological and rooted in violent fantasies that are acted out on the victim

5. The audiology of this type of serial murder is unclear. Researchers have put forth various theories such as sociological, biological, neurological and psychological theories that seem to offer a partial understanding of the nature of serial murdering other words, all these theories go some way to contributing to the conceptualization of serial killers’ behaviors, but in isolation they maintain a focus on certain aspects while necessarily ignoring other aspects. It is for this reason that there is a consensus that what makes a serial killer is a combination of many complex and interrelated neurological, social, physiological, environmental and psychological factors

6. Examining early infantile development, Freud (1920) stated initially that aggression is a reaction to frustration in the satisfaction of the ‘‘pleasure principle’’. He described the ‘‘pleasure principle’’ as the dominant motivational force within the infant psyche that seeks primarily to obtain pleasurable experiences and will do so without consideration or regard for the other.

7. Some serial killers lead ostensibly normal lives as students, friends, married people with children, gainfully employed and active community members The vast majority are not insane; they knew what they were doing at the time of the crime The police evidence points to their intentions even if the actual crime was apparently sloppy, disorganized and opportunistic.

8. Serial Killers tend to follow a pattern in some way whether they kill a number of people and leave a number of people they kill or each person they kill die the same way or have some kind of connection.

9. These severe problems of consistent definition of serial killers and accurate assessments of their victims cloud all attempts to understand their behavior.

10. Most Serial Killers exbit personality disorders that makes them to lose control but steal wrong some serial killers may seek help to get better but hardly accomplish help and go to jail.

11. The majority of serial killers are not technically insane. ‘Insanity’ is a legally specic term that addresses only the question of whether or not the killer knew at the time of the murder that the act was wrong; most serial killers know that their actions are wrong.

12. One of the controversies involved in attempting to analyze serial killers is the question of motive: should they be categorized by the intent that drives their behavior, or by its outcomes?

13. All Serial killers derive enormous pleasure, sexual eradication and intense exhilaration by the act of violence and extreme domination over another Person.

14. Serial killers are frequently categorized by law enforcement officials as ‘organized’ or ‘disorganized’ terms that not only summarize their behaviors but serve as two poles in a continuum of mental illness.

15. Many forensic psychologists suspect a genetic chemical imbalance in the brain Some serial killers, such as Arthur Shaw cross, possess an extra Y chromosome, which may produce hyper-aggressive behavior

16. essential element of psychological pleasure in inflicting pain on another. Related to this perceived threat, these types of serial killers may be viewed as protecting a weak and inadequate sense of self.

17. It is for this reason that there is a consensus that what makes a serial killer is a combination of many complex and interrelated neurological, social, physiological, environmental and psychological factors

18. Most serial killers exhibit a well-known triad of behaviors in childhood: prolonged bed wetting, cruelty to animals and a fascination with .re. Most were physically and sexually abused.

19. Serial killers are frequently categorized by law enforcement officials terms that not only summarize their behaviors but serve as two poles in a continuum of mental illness.

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