Serial Killer Research Paper

Oxforddictionary.com defines a serial killer as “ a person who commits a series of /ns in their childhood that make them into serial killers. Robert Hansen showed signs of becoming a serial killer when he committed arson. Resler and Douglas, FBI criminal profilers, created a profile of serial killers. They concluded that future serial killers may commit ". . . arson as predictive[ related as a result ] of adult violence , particularly serial killers and rapists"(List). Hansen was convicted of arson and showed this characteristic when he burned down a bus barn in his home town. Robert Hansen admits that he experienced an ineffective social environment when telling police " During my junior high or high school days I could not control my speech at all . I was always so embarrassed and upset with it from people making fun of me that I hated the word school ” (Krajieck). Hansen self-diagnosed himself when he told police that his stuttering was the

Hansen stated to police “ ' From the scars . . . on my face you can probably see, I could see why girls wouldn’t want to get close to me ' "(qtd. in Krajieck). Hansen also stated that his acne was the reason for his sexual desires.
Serial killers live and go through certain environments like many others in society but certain environments they have gone through cause them to become serial killers. Robert Hansen’s parents, like many other parents, would ignore him as a child, but this certain situation led him to become a serial killer. According to Douglas and Ressler's article published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence, adolescents who become serial killers" . . . experience an ineffective social environment. They have parents or guardians who ignore their behavior” (Dias and Dingeman). Evidence proves that serial killer’s parents will ignore them as