Serial Killer Nature Vs Nurture

Who are serial killers? Can anyone be a serial killer? According to “Serial Killers VS. Mass Murders”, an article posted on Crime Museum, an individual(s) who murders “three or more people in a period of over a month with a “cooling down” time between murders” (“Serial Killers VS. Mass Murders”) is indeed a serial killer(s), although most commit more than one crime at one time until caught. Validating the theory, anyone can be a serial murderer, though given society’s implemented morals of often blur the line of the killer instinct as an innate instinct, which has lasted and served as a “survival tactic” in times of peril throughout the history of mankind. Serial killers often yield to this instinct, as result of various psychological malfunctions,

No need to fear, in following article “Serial Killers: Nature vs. Nurture”, an articled posted by the National Center For Crisis Management American Academy of Experts In Traumatic Stress, a site dedicated to improving support for victims before and after a crisis has occurred, researchers debate whether serial killers are products of a nurture or nature environments by assessing the works of Sigmund Freud and sociologist Arnold Arluke. According to the article Freud provides two theories, from his publication of Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), for the aggression human nature demonstrate, by creating the death instinct, which Freud coins as “the most destructive form of behavior” (“Serial Killers: Nature vs. Nurture”), based off of his observations with people who’d experienced unpleasant experiences in throughout their lives, and the life instinct, which Freud argues, is a microcosm of “[our obsession with maintaining] a better life and [trying to achieve bigger goals…]” (“Serial Killers: Nature vs. Nurture”). Arguing that a combination of both of these instincts plays a part in the conditioning of serial killers, who is aware their actions are immoral. In contrast from Freud’s theory, sociologist Arnold Arluke “[compares] the criminal records of one hundred and fifty three animal abusers with one hundred and fifty three non animal abusers and [finds] that those who [abused animals] were five times more likely to commit acts of violence such as assault, rape, and murder against others” (“Serial Killers: Nature vs. Nurture). Implying that children, who take pleasure in harming animals to exert their dominance and power because they feel powerless against their parents, will most likely become serial