Stereotypes Of Serial Killers

Every human being has feelings and emotions. While some cry when they are frustrated, others scream, swear and even commit crime to cure some frustration. A serial killer is whom everyone knows as a friend, lover, or even father but no one knows about his or her killer instinct until it is too late. Serial killers are made not born; it has been person that a person’s early years are the most important years. A child’s first few years are a time of trial and error, a time of figuring things out and most importantly putting the pieces of their life together in place. As an infant, brain development is dependent on its surroundings as a young child’s brain is similar to a sponge, soaking up information through observation. The surroundings

A majority of serial killers are known as “mentally disturbed” meaning they suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, and depression. “It is easy to condemn serial killers as monsters, however it is important to explore beyond the stereotypes and consider what we learn about women and men who kill repetitively.” Myra Hindley stated in her research article about serial homicide. Jann Scott explains in his post Serial Homicide that “While most serial killers have severe personality dysfunction, this alone cannot explain their behavior.” He went into detail saying, “…serial killers experienced impaired childhood attachments, formative traumatic experiences, and a private internal world of violent thoughts and fantasies” (Scott). Serial killers are most usually diagnosed with fetishism, (having an excessive regard or attachment; worship or belief in a magical obsession) because they have a fetish with the thrill of killing. Because of the way killers brain works, they see the good in hurting people rather than all of the things that are wrong about it. Serial killers form different kinds of paraphilia’s based off of their likings. Paraphilia’s are sexual deviations or perversions that they start having. This includes

Many female serial killers result in using poison for killing and are also known for having put more time and thought into their murder process. Kelleher and Kelleher (1998) in a study on serial killers selected seven different categories for women who kill: black widow, angel of death, revenge killer, murder for profit or crime, killer whose sanity is in question, team killer and sexual predator. There is a small amount of women who have been charged for murder as a sexual predator: crime being based off of sexual motivation. An article I read from psychology today about female serial killers explained that in a 2011 study, “most ladies are less to have a criminal history, and kill those closest to them. Also, they use much quieter methods of elimination (poison, drugs, smothering).” Many people underestimate what women can be like, and assume that all women are sweet, and innocent. People do not understand that women are capable of the exact same things men are capable of; they just do it in a quieter and more thought out