Female Serial Killers Investigate criminal profiling used by the F.B.I. Of female serial killers and provide law enforcement with information on identifying them. While it is a fact that a male serial killer would commit murders based on sex, in ot Continue Reading...
Female Serial Killers The notion of female serial killers often appears as the minority of cases in the history of serial murder and serial killers. It's as if there is a part of society that refuses to believe that women are just as capable of mass Continue Reading...
This is in direct contrast to male serial killers, who more often select random, unknown individuals as their victims (Mouzos & West, 2007). In fact, it is estimated that around 70% of female serial killers select family members or someone who i Continue Reading...
Doss met third husband Arlie Lanning through the lonely hearts column. Lanning died of apparent heart failure, but the house, which Lanning had left to his sister, burned down, leaving the insurance proceeds for Doss. Before Doss left town, Lanning' Continue Reading...
Currently the DSM-IV refers to both these as antisocial personality disorder with the following criteria: A. Pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 as indicated by at least three of the foll Continue Reading...
Serial Killers - Psychopathic Behavior One of the most common challenges impacting society, is determining when a person is showing psychopathic behavior. In the world of healthcare, these signs can underscore someone who is a serial killer that wil Continue Reading...
All of these killers had problem childhoods, often including sexual abuse. Almost all of them had some kind of psychological disorder, and many were declared criminally insane. All the killers had a compulsion to continue killing. None of them stop Continue Reading...
Does Criminal Profiling Work or is it Unjustified The Case of Tim Masters Introduction Criminal profiling allows law enforcement to develop their understanding of particular types of crime, criminals, criminal behaviors, and crime-ridden areas. The F Continue Reading...
Female Sex Offenders Are female sex offenders more evil than male sex offenders? Biological differences in men and women have been thought to contribute to predispositions for various criminal activities. For example, hormonal differences exist bet Continue Reading...
Serial Killers and Victim Selection A serial killer is a term used to describe a person who undertakes a series of crimes exceeding three in number with the killing exhibiting a common characteristic (Knight & Zelda, 2006). The depicted common c Continue Reading...
serial killers and feminism. The writer uses a book and a film to explore what the feminist film contributes to the understanding by society of serial killers. There were two sources used to complete this paper. Very few things strike fear in the h Continue Reading...
He used various ruses to coax a female into his car, and from there she was likely never seen alive again. On November 7, 1974, he abducted Carol DeRonch, 18, from a shopping center in Utah, and he was able to handcuff her wrists but she managed to Continue Reading...
Some of the 'tools of trade' a killer could incorporate to torture his victims as he seeks to facilitate his perversion include but they are not limited to "leather slave collars, handcuffs, cigarette lighters, whips, and adhesive or duct tape" (Kep Continue Reading...
To begin with, the violence Sutcliffe meted out to his unfortunate victims was largely sexualized. Apart from being exclusively women, most of Sutcliffe's victims were prostitutes. Further, it can also be noted that in most cases, Sutcliffe first an Continue Reading...
Gay Serial Killers Serial killers continue to hold a fascination on the American public. The crimes of this subset of murderers are frequently sexualized in nature, which perhaps adds to the titillation in media coverage. It is worth observing that Continue Reading...
Belle Gunness Serial murder is a thankfully rare occurrence, but not rare enough. Per the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) organization and categorization standards, in order to be classified as a serial killer, a person must have committed at Continue Reading...
In the final results of their study, women psychopaths scored higher in the categories "Superficial," "deceitful," "impulsive," and "poor behavioral controls." Men scored higher on "lacks remorse," "lacks goals," "adolescent antisocial behavior," a Continue Reading...
Dennis Rader, BTK Killer There are few things in society today that horrify or fascinate us as much as serial killers. Murderers like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer fill us with fear while also inspiring us to study them and use them as subjects of fi Continue Reading...
The perpetrator may even have a documented prior criminal history involving physical or sexual assaults of victims with some of the same characteristics as the current series of victims. More likely than not, the perpetrator is a product of a home Continue Reading...
Dr. Gary Kaniuk Consultation Triage & Testimony in Forensic Psychology Yvette Riley Female Serial Killers -- An Introduction The heinous act of murder has been outlawed by various authorities, states, jurisdictions, and by many religions for Continue Reading...
Crime and Aileen Wuornos Criminal theories based on biological, psychological, sociological, and socio-psychological factors have been constructed in an attempt to better identify the causes of crime and what drives an individual to behave in a dev Continue Reading...
Further, they are subdivided into the following four categories: Visionary -- they claim to have received orders from either God or Devil to kill Missionary -- they consider it their duty to eliminate undesirable elements as prostitutes from socie Continue Reading...
SPECIES Or, Men are from Earth, Women are from Venus Science fiction and speculative fiction have always enjoyed playing with popular conceptions of feminine roles. Speculative authors were among the first to bring us societies without sexual preju Continue Reading...
a-to-C equation (Action-to-Characteristics) The a-to-C equation: The profiling debate The A-to-C equation (actions-to-characteristics) model is a critical component of investigative psychology, without which effective police investigating would be Continue Reading...
When York, who was a prominent doctor with two brothers who knew of his travel plans, went missing, the brothers instituted a search for him. One of the brothers, Colonel A.M. York, formed a massive search party composed of 50 men. His search party Continue Reading...
gender roles in the workplace pre-exist much of what we think defines what work really is; not only do they pre-exist the modern working world of offices and factories, but they also seems older than more basic things, like writing and currency. Fro Continue Reading...
Criminal Profiling as an Aid for Apprehending Serial Killers Popular media loves to emphasize the role of the criminal profiler in apprehending serial killers. It has been a central them in books, television shows, and movies for the past two decade Continue Reading...
She notified police and the parking ticket (because Berkowitz had parked too close to a fire hydrant) was traced to Berkowitz. But the police were just thinking that Berkowitz might be a witness; however, when the Yonkers police searched that Galaxi Continue Reading...
However, this made Andrei use physical torture as means of controlling her which later lead to him killing her by hitting her head constantly. His aim was not to have a casual sex with the victim but to kill her and satisfy his physical needs, which Continue Reading...
Jack the Ripper The mystery of Jack the Ripper has led to much speculation and countless stories about who the killer might possibly be. From an alien to the royal physician, there is no shortage of suggestions or myths about the motives and resourc Continue Reading...
He suggested the British model of profiling instead, based on the "bottom up" type of processing, which analyzes existing evidence of specific similarities between offense and offender characteristics. The CSA uses the reverse, the "top down" proces Continue Reading...
"There are at least four (4) different subtypes -- common, alienated, aggressive, and dyssocial. Commons are characterized mostly by their lack of conscience; the alienated by their inability to love or be loved; aggressives by a consistent sadistic Continue Reading...
The ego also understands that submitting to the id can lead to self-destructive behavior. The ego is also subject to "defense mechanisms" that will help it mediate between the id and the super-ego. One defense mechanism present in Bundy's behavior i Continue Reading...
Count Dracula and Hanibal Lector Program Authorized to Offer Degree The Analysis of Count Dracula and Hanibal Lector Identities of Count Dracula and Hannibal Supernatural Powers Gender and Sexuality Blood-Drinking The relation between Dracul Continue Reading...
psychological examination of the story of Jack the Ripper. The actions of Jack the Ripper would pale in comparison to some of the more modern serial killers but the tale of Jack the Ripper lives on as one of the most historical cases the world has e Continue Reading...
By examining violence and women in both Sin City and the Tekken series, one is able to see how seemingly similar representations of gender and violence actually create wildly different meanings depending on the particular medium. While Sin City and Continue Reading...
The absence of religious lifestyle in the family is an emphasis to the centrality of religion in the life of adolescents and is brought out as the possible wedge that may be there between evil and good. Here, Arnold Fiend could be seen as the embod Continue Reading...
While the subject's rationale for blaming his most recent victim for dressing provocatively may reflect "normal" (Macionis 2002) social conditioning (particularly among adolescent males), his complete lack of empathy (as distinct from responsibility Continue Reading...
Bluebeard The story of Bluebeard is a famous one, although not as often retold as some of the happier stories like "Cinderella" or "Sleeping Beauty." One of the reasons for this is that the story of "Bluebird" does not end happily, nor does it allow Continue Reading...
This skilled use of ironic prose is also observable in "A Jury of her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, as when the woman who has just committed murder tells the investigators: "after a minute...'I sleep sound.'" the tale depicts how a group of women gradua Continue Reading...
