...James O. Beasley’s Serial Murder in America: Case Studies of Seven Offenders offers an analysis of seven offenders and their motives for murder. It includes a detailed outlook of their thought process while doing so, whom their victims were, and how they were killed. Beasley also considered their PCL-R score that determined their psychological well being. Each of these offenders all struggled with some sort of turmoil in their adolescent stage that lead them to their actions of rage and insanity. Some offenders had multiple factors that contributed to why they felt the need to murder like growing up in a dysfunctional family, failed marriage, feeling of self isolation, desire for self harm, drug abuse, and sexual urges. For example, offender...
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...visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/crj-105-wk-8-quiz-3-chapter-9-to-11/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM CRJ 105 WK 8 QUIZ 3 CHAPTER 9 TO 11 CRJ 105 WK 8 Quiz 3 Chapter 9-11 1. A disgruntled employee opened fire at his job, killing two of his coworkers; he then proceeded directly home to kill his wife and child. This individual is best identified as a: a. Mass murderer b. Sadistic murderer c. Serial murderer d. Spree murderer 2. An upset student opens fire in a school cafeteria, killing 18 of his classmates. This student is best identified as a: a. Mass murderer b. Sadistic murderer c. Serial murderer d. Spree murderer 3. Which of the following crimes is usually sexual in nature? a. Domestic violence b. Elder abuse c. Robbery d. Serial murder 4. Most murders: a. Are premeditated b. Involve contract killers c. Result from aggravated assault d. Take place during robbery attempts 5. The "terrible triad" is considered predictive of which type of crime? a. Domestic violence b. Rape c. Robbery d. Serial murder 6. Which of the following refers to the victim's role in his or her own victimization? a. Victim blame b. Victim cause c. Victim complicity d. Victim precipitation 7. Offenders who commit "crimes of passion" would be identified as which of the following? a. Culturally violent offenders b. Criminally violent offenders c. Pathologically violent offenders d. Situationally violent offenders 8. Offenders who engage in...
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...AJS/584 Professor Steven Hoenig 3-14-2016 Serial killers is a person that kill three or more people in a short amount of time. He or she murder one after another in a similar way with an inactive period between each murder. The motivation for murdering an adult or child is based on psychological gratification. The serial killer is normally an adult white male in his late twenties, who has killed four or more individuals in separate incident with an inactive period between. It is impossible to tell just by looking at a person who will become a serial killer, the traits of some criminals or serial killers appear to be similar most of the time. The types of behaviors includes violence in the home, sexual assaults, molestation, alcohol and drug abuse, lying, animal cruelty, and a history of bedwetting. The types of serial killers are as follow. Thrill seekers are individuals that are smarter then law enforcement and think of it as a game, enjoy the media, attention seeker, police pursuit, and avoiding authorities. They send messages and keep record of the murders. Mission oriented serial killers an individual that think or claim they are doing society a favor by killing people like prostitutes. Power and Control serial killer are individual that get a kick out of or enjoy the victim’s terror, suffering, and screaming. The chareristics of a serial killer are often subject to debate. As stated in an earlier discussion, serial killers reported in the United States are white...
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...just to satisfy his needs so his life should be taken as well. He should not only get sent to prison but get the death penalty as well. i think there are two different types of murderers. There's the murderer that lives for killing and likes chopping the body parts of his victim or even likes eating them. They plan their murder to the very last detail, maybe they know their victim or maybe they don't, but they know exactly how much time they are going to spend with them and how they are going to kill them; these are called premeditated murders. Then there are the types that act in the moment of anger or of fear and dont realize what they are doing until they have already done it. I dont think that this type of murderer deserves the death penalty but they do deserve some time in prison to pay for what he or she did if it wasnt in self-defense. Many people think that if a murderer is sent to prison for life that he is going to stop killing, but there is no guarentee that a murderer is going to stop killing once he is in prison. If he or she gets life in prison without parole then they have nothing to lose and will keep killing even in prison. If a killer does murder someone in prison then yes the guards can take privileges away and likely put him in solitary confinement but that is only for a certain amount of time and after that he will be put back with the...
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...With crime there comes punishment and with punishment comes justice. All investigations should be led hand in hand with the pursuit of truth. Investigation must be closely regulated and administered so as to avoid variability and erroneousness. There are however cases in which the human makes mistakes. As members of the community with the ability to explore these potential mistakes, we can bring about proper consequence. Serial is an example of ethical reporting based on a key theory of consequence reporting: justice. The entire podcast is centered around seeking the truth of what exactly happened on January 13, 1999. Sarah Koenig, the host and producer of the Serial podcast, dedicated an endless amount of time to investigating the supposed...
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...Gary Leon Ridgeway Michel Marquez Keiser University 08/13/2013 Gary Leon Ridgeway Gary was a ruthless serial killer that targeted prostitutes in King County, Washington. In 1982 women stared disappearing around King County because of Gary Ridgeway but at the time the police had no idea who he was. The first young lady that Gary Ridgeway kidnapped and killed was 16 year old Wendy Lee Coffield. The police found her in a river called The Green River, since the police obviously did not know the name of the killer they began calling him The Green River Killer after finding the next four bodies in the same river. Gary Ridgeway would kidnap these females mostly prostitutes strangle them and then would drop them off in a variation of places but mostly in The Green River thus dubbed The Green River Killer. The King County police department had no way of knowing that Coffield (Gary’s first victim) represented the beginning of a savage killing spree that would last for years, with the majority of the murders occurring from 1982 through 1984. Gary was not very smart in school and witnessed his parents fighting occasionally. His childhood life was full of reasons that would point to why he ended up doing the things he did. Gary was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Gary he was the middle son of Mary Rita Steinman and Thomas Newton Ridgway. During his childhood he was a very poor student but did not appear to be out of the normal...
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...Blake David Don Carey English 1301-23 September 1st, 2015 Killing: Nurture or Nature? Sometimes considered disgusting, cruel, terrible, or unforgivable, serial killers could arguably have a reason for their madness. Beaten as a child, raped, or even for left to die could spark what could soon become disastrous. Some serial killers do it for the fun of it, but for the most part they do it because of a poor childhood and upbringing. This is what some believe to be the reasons for the killings done by The Coed Killer, Edmond Kemper. After his conviction of killing ten people, prosecutors then found the real reason of the horrific murders. Seen as a gentle giant by some, Kemper was all but that. Kemper was born in Burbank, California, the middle child and only son born to Edmond Kemper Sr. and Clarnell Stage. As a child Kemper was very smart but showed signs of antisocial behavior such as cruelty to animals. At age thirteen, he reportedly stabbed his pet cat multiple times before cutting its head off and placing it on a stick for all of his friends to see. He also made his sisters’ dolls do bizarre sexual rituals after taking off their heads. Kemper was close to his father and was devastated when his parents divorced in 1957. He was then raised by his mother in Helena, Montana. She was a violent alcoholic who publically humiliated and verbally abused him. Kemper ran away from home in 1963 in search of his father in Van Nuys, California. When he found him he then learned that...
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... * How many of you think that the government should get rid of capital punishment? I believe that it should be kept because it benefits the U.S. Here is my point of view, if you take someone’s life what gives you the right to enjoy the gift of living? I believe that if there is strong evidence, and you are not mentally insane and authorities know for sure that a person has committed murder, there should be a penalty involved. The Bible says that if a person should murder, they should deserve to lose their life also. I believe in the death penalty because it eliminates criminals who commit horrific murders, it gives closure to many who have been affected by those criminals, and it also provides more space in jail and prisons. Today, I strongly believe that our consequences are a joke and that is why killing sprees are getting worse and more violent. It’s some people out here that enjoys killing people like serial killers, which they need to be stopped. A person’s religious matter might prevent them from supporting capital punishment. This is why some judges sentence murderers or serial killers to life in prison or a even lesser punishment with parole. Just giving them a life sentence is overcrowding prisons. I don’t think we should reward murderers by keeping them alive and feeding them. While the family of the victim forever mourns. Another thing that I think is dumb is to let them out for good behavior. They can kill again when they get out. I have seen it happen before...
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...Man Richard Kuklinski in my opinion was a serial killer. Due to the abuse he received not just from his parents but also his neighbors and classmates this would be used as an excuse for why Richard did what he did. Richard upbringing was not like so many ordinary families where both parents lived in the house and both was involved in the child’s life, and there main focus was the best interest of the child. Richards’s parents were involved in his upbringing but in a way that caused him to lose a part of humanism which will cause harm to so many people. Because of the abuse his father bestowed upon him, and to his siblings this had an unfavorable outcome on Richard. Another thing that I believed that caused Richard to not have any emotions for life was he watch his father beat his older brother to death and made his mother lie to the police on what happened to his brother. Here are some of the things that took place in Richards’s life that are questionable to whether this cause him to become what he became or was it just an excuse for him to lean on. I will dig into some of his life and then do my comparison at the end of my brief summary of Mr. Kuklinski life history. Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband and a father of three beautiful children living in a middle class neighborhood in Jersey City New Jersey. Mr. Kuklinski committed over 200 murders in a decade’s time which to this day was noted as the most murders committed by any one person in the history of the United...
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...The Green River Killer: Gary Leon Ridgway Columbia Southern University Criminal Investigation / BCJ 3701 March 28, 2013 Serial Killer The Green River Killer is one of the titles given to Gary Leon Ridgway for the crimes he committed. Gary was born on February 18, 1949 and was apprehended on November 30, 2001. Gary Ridgeway was a serial sexual killer that learned how to meet his various needs with sexual aggression and violence. Those reenacted fantasies came from his needs and core issues stem, “translating life experiences into his own frame of reference”. Gary Ridgway is an example of a “mission killer, motivated by revenge and retaliation against women, easily marked and victimized” (Carlton Smith, Tomas Guillen, 2004, p.1). The offender was in touch with reality and acts on a conscious, self-imposed duty to rid the world of the particular group that those women appeared to be from. Between 1982 and 1984, forty-nine women in the Seattle area were murdered although the first victims’ body left by the Green River Killer was first discovered in 1982, this murderous conniption is presently known to have lasted longer than originally speculated. This case represented years of thwarting and disgruntlement, accumulating years of hypothesis and contemplation surrounding the identity of the offender. In spite of a full scale man hunt, comprehensive inquisitions and investigation, the sadistic killer escaped authorities...
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...Dennis Rader is a serial killer who has committed many heinous crimes over a long period of time. Rader is not like most serial killers. He managed to live a double life and elude the police and law enforcement authorities for more than 30 years in Wichita, Kansas. Rader grew up and had a normal childhood and then began killing when he was 28 years old (Welch, 2012). Throughout his adult life, he managed to murder a total of 10 people. Another thing that makes Rader stand out from other serial killers is that he actually taunted the police, even though it increased his risk of being caught. He even gave himself a nickname: the BTK Killer, which stands for bind them, torture them, and kill them. Rader seemed to thrive off of his popularity and...
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...consequences. Trait, being that a criminal has personality traits that influences them to commit a crime. These differences are shown throughout the TV show Dexter. In this show, the main character is an ongoing killer who murders other serial killers. The beginning of the first season shows Dexter’s personality and how he cannot help himself with his murders. It shows how he murders these serial killers to try to fill a void inside of him. He does these things in attempts to make himself feel better. There are big differences between the two theories, but Dexter definitely shows a little of each theory in himself. In an episode, Dexter said, “I fake all human interactions, and I fake them very well.” By him saying this, we are to understand that all relationships in his life are empty- they mean nothing to him. He fakes relationships with his girlfriend, with strangers and acquaintances, and especially coworkers. His relationship with his girlfriend is a way to make himself not stand out so much in society. This is a pretty obvious example of the trait theory. Dexter shows that he is not able to feel any of his feelings; he says even if he tries, he could not. He knows he is not normal, and he hasn’t been normal his whole life. This personality is common amongst most serial killers, and it shows how there isn’t much choice in the traits of their character. “Empty inside, like me.” This is another quote that Dexter has in the...
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...Mehmet Yılmaz University of Social Science and Humanities Warsaw-2012 Forensic Psychology Case study paper. Turkey is not as familiar with the serial killer case as much as the United States Of America is, but still, there have been several reported cases of serial killers during the criminal history of the Turkish Republic. In this essay, I will report upon my findings and opinions concerning one of the most notorious Turkish serial killers, Yavuz Yapicioglu. The essay will begin by a brief life story and criminal records of Yavuz Yapicioglu. I will then try to take a deeper look at his personality and serial killer identity from a psychological perspective. Yavuz Yapicioglu is a Turkish serial killer who murdered at least eighteen people between the period of 1994-2002 and assaulted many more. Even though criminal records tell us that he murdered eighteen people, his family and eye witnesses claimed he murdered between forty three to fifty people . What is more, his brother claims that Yapicioglu is not only a serial killer, but also a rapist. His brother believes that his sibling is responsible for raping and then murdering as many as two young university student girls, but police investigators do not have enough evidence to confirm it. Despite the fact that the true number of his victims remains unknown, his eighteen official criminal records are proof that he killed the most people in the entire criminal history of Turkey. It is worth starting, at this point...
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...Gacey and Bobby Thompson are two murder stories that are shocking in their own rights. While the crimes are horrifying, there are theories of criminality that can help to explain the murderer. These theories draw from the backgrounds of the criminals, which have similarities and differences. John Wayne Gacey was a well-liked business man, who killed thirty-three men over an eight-year span before he was caught by the police (Gacy). The man had a troubled, abusive childhood in which his father beat his mother and belittled him, which causes noticeable, strange behaviors and a grandiose sense of self in adulthood; he was 36 years old when he was apprehended for the murders (Gacy). On the other hand, Bobby Thompson was only 10 years old when he murdered a two-year-old boy (Beyond All Reason). Bobby also had a troubled childhood, which had been a cycle of abuse that his maternal grandfather passed to his mother, whom continued the cycle to Bobby and his brothers (Beyond all Reason). These backgrounds can be used to assign theories of criminality to the murderers, to help explain the heinous crimes committed. First, Gacy’s crimes can be explained through several theories of criminality. The theories that best explain Gacy’s murders would be psychopathy, stimulation seeking theory, and containment theory. Gacy clearly...
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...It was at night when it happened. Joseph and Julie Otero were sleeping in bed after a tiring day of work, while their children were in the next room. Julie was suddenly awakened by the terrified fear of her husband she only got to see a glance of her husband being strangled by Dennis Rader until he moved on to her next and then the children. The Otero family were the first victims to serial killer Dennis Rader who had a killing spree between 1974-1981. This case is an example of millions of crimes that are committed in which the death penalty should be applicable. However though not all serial killers and murders are caught and takes years to gather up evidence. Rader was ultimately sentenced to life without parole avoiding the death penalty....
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