Disadvantages Of Serial Killers

Johana Sosa
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Throughout centuries the many cases of serial killers have sparked curiosity and a high level of interest for the search of what elicits a human being to take the lives of others. A serial killer is defined by a person who has killed three people or more in a process of time(cooling off period).This search has left many psychologists and criminologists dumbfounded. Are these humans born with a killer instinct or are they molded into it? Serial killers are made and not born they are products of traumatic childhood experiences, many prevalent social conditions and the fact that no one is born evil. Childhood Trauma is one of the most important factor to analyze within a serial killer. Every human being on this earth grows

“The biggest difference was seen under the psychological abuse category were the levels were 2% in the general population and 50% in the serial killer group(M.G. 2005).” Physical abuse is defined as causing or allowing any type of non accidental physical injuries.As an example, “the mother of the child rapist and murderer Lorenzo Fayne was counseled by social services to not strike her son in the head as punishment.”(Malone.2000)hitting a child so young in the head can not only damage important parts of the head but also leave frustration within the child. The second type of abuse was sexual, which is any sexual activity that meets the criminal definition or is unhealthy for a child considering his/her age and level of development. A serial killer who described this type of abuse was Bobby joe, an American serial killer on death row in

Exposure to sexual things at such a young age can lead to a drastically changed within the child, which can affect how they grow up. The last type of abused seen in serial killers was Psychological, which refers to any emotional, or any humiliation act that can be psychologically damaging. Many serial killers have undergone this type of abuse while growing up. One of the most common scenarios was that mother’s were dressings their son as a girl. Such case was for Henry lee Lucas. He was born in 1936 and he stated that his mother,”would dress him up as a little girl in which humiliated him,” His first victim was his mother. Regardless, the effects of dressing young boys into girls and physically hitting and exposing sexual acts at a young age, it's clear that these three offenders lives were influenced by the type of abuse they received for their development of becoming violent creatures.
Prevalent social conditions has caused a lot of psychological defects within the serial killers while they were young. Most came from broken homes although there was a small percentage of those who grew up in a “normal” environment, “normal” such as having a father