CC202 Lecture 2: Defining a Serial Killer
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Mass murder one person killing multiple people at a single time. Serial murder one person committing multiple homicides, at different times. No consensus about how to define serial murder: can result in over-inclusion/under-inclusion. Researchers depend on law enforcements statistics/definition to do research: law enforcement uses this research to perform job. Female killers more likely to kill people they know: more likely to use poison. Two or more forensically linked murders with or without a revealed intention of committing additional murder. The murders are committed as discrete events by the same person or persons over a period of time. Custodial murder people in their care (i. e. nurses) Psychotic delusional, operating by assumption that they"re being told by someone to do something. Power-control killer feels pleasure from killing, more focus on dominance/control rather than sexual. Competitively disadvantaged kill children/adolescents, are socially disadvantages. Psychopathic kill early in life, stable lifestyles. Prepare, calculate, learn from previous crimes, become more sophisticated.
