SOC 2760 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Embezzlement, General Strain Theory, Routine Activity Theory
10 Aug 2016
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Chapter 2: defining multiple murder page #21-38: Incorporating many elements of earlier classification schemes, a unified typology of multiple murder can be constructed using 5 categories of motivation applicable to both serial and mass killings: power, revenge, loyalty, profit, and terror. Inspires by sadistic fantasies, a man tortures and kills a series of strangers to satisfy his need for control and dominance. Grossly mistreated as a child, a man avenges his past by slaying women who remind him of his mother. A team of killers turns murder into a ritual for proving their dedication and commitment to one another. A woman poisons to death a series of husbands in order to collect on their life insurance policies. A profoundly paranoid man commits a series of bombings to warn the world of impending doom. A pseudocommando, dressed in battle fatigues and armed with an assault rifle, turns a shopping mall into a war zone .
